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...Dartboard hope never to see the day when a bunch of bloated yet somehow enlightened people sit around a bar, drinking Coors' Artic Ice and spouting about Shakespeare: "Yes, that scene with Henry in the camp was certainly important, but I found the battle of Avignon a bit anticlimatic afterwards...
When the French government last month announced that a local official, Jean-Marie Chauvet, had discovered the stunning Paleolithic cave near Avignon, experts swiftly hailed the 20,000-year-old paintings as a trove rivaling-and perhaps surpassing-those of Lascaux and Altamira. "This is a virgin site-it's completely intact. It's great art," exulted Jean Clottes, an adviser to the French Culture Ministry and a leading authority on prehistoric art. It has also reopened some of the oldest and least settled of questions: When, how and above all why did Homo sapiens start making...
...that part of the money was used to support a posh life-style for Jouret and Di Mambro and to buy houses in Western Europe and Canada. Last week at least five more Temple properties were discovered. Two of them -- an apartment near Montreux, Switzerland, and a villa near Avignon, France -- had been rigged to explode in flames...
...French-American Film workshop started last year under the tutelage of Jerome Henry Rudes and Bruce Posner. Rudes has been running the Avignon film Festival in Avignon, France, for the past 10 years. He wanted to bring his down-to-earth, meet and learn-to-appreciate concept across the Atlantic and hooked up with Posner, the curator of the Harvard film Archive. Unlike last year, the festival has spread to other areas of the Boston area, now including (with the Harvard film Archive) the Museum of Fine Arts (where the French director, Guy Jacques' film , "Je m'appelle Victor...
...Avignon-Cambridge program provided a unique opportunity for people interested in cinema to speak with filmmakers on a personal basis, and to see films ordinarily unavailable to American audiences. While the scale of the work-shop is much smaller than that of the annual French Rencontres, those who participated in the festival hope that like the French program, it too may become a tradition...