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...years, French and American filmmakers and enthusiasts have come together in France for the annual Rencontres cin*matographiques franco-am*ricaines festival. This year, the French-American Film Workshop of Avignon brought a smaller, similar event to Cambridge. For four days directors and actors from both countries participated in discussions and film screenings in the Cambridge area, mostly at the Harvard Film Archive...
...missing, and thousands were evacuated from the popular Southeastern region of Vaucluse, where most of the death and destruction occurred. "It's an indescribable tragedy," said Mayor Claude Haut of Vaison-la-Romaine, an ancient Roman town of 5,000 people 25 miles north of the city of Avignon, where 23 died...
Probably the last serious biography of the artist by someone who knew him intimately, this first volume brings Picasso from childhood through the Blue and Rose periods, just as the 25-year-old was preparing to radically alter the course of 20th century painting with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. With the help of art historian Marilyn McCully, Richardson explores areas untouched by earlier biographers. He is a born storyteller and writes in a classic style that employs the full palette of ideas and personalities that ushered in the era of Modernism...
Probably the last serious biography of the artist by someone who knew him intimately, this first volume brings Picasso from childhood through the Blue and Rose periods, just as the 25-year-old was preparing to radically alter the course of 20th century painting with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. With the help of art historian Marilyn McCully, Richardson explores areas untouched by earlier biographers. He is a born storyteller and writes in a classic style that employs the full palette of ideas and personalities that ushered in the era of Modernism...
...Neill, and Thierree, who has performed for such talents as Federico Fellini and Peter Brook, share a sense of theater as a primal force and of spectacle as something inward. For them it is not spiritual, exactly, but not entirely show biz either. Their circus began in 1971 in Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines of the 23-ft. mat that serves as its sole ring...