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...most expensive French film ever, with a massive release on 6,000 screens across Europe. It stars French cinema royalty Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu as well as sports icons like soccer god Zinédine Zidane, basketball wizard Tony Parker and motor-racing legend Michael Schumacher. But the undisputed star of the show is the feisty, moustachioed comic strip hero upon whose adventures the movie is based: Asterix...
...cure for AIDS or cancer. #3 Human-rights violations and beating of monks in Burma. #4 Inflation around the world. #5 Political instability in India and Pakistan. #6 I could not become a movie star. I had planned a career move, since the pay is better in cinema than in professional management. But I failed. Raju Aneja, DUBAI
...criteria: expelling enough illegal immigrants to meet the numerical quotas that detractors decry as inhumane? Can Culture Minister Christine Abanel really be held responsible for "the evolution of visits to museums during free entry periods," or the "share of French films" in the nation's cinema market, as stipulated? And will it really be the fault of Education Minister Xavier Darcos if reviewers find that not enough French schoolteachers have rushed to adopt another Sarkozy priority: working overtime...
...desired. If an algebraic formula could summarize its quintessence, it would look something like this: De Gaulle + Sartre + the baguette + Sophie Marceau's breasts = French culture. Whereas we know very well French culture is infinitely richer. That France is lacking artists of Proust's stature is undeniable. That French cinema is weaker than at the time when the nouvelle vague was giving absolute lessons in filmmaking to the rest of world cinema is obvious. But it is rather simple to show that the conception that we have of art has also changed, and that the very idea of a masterpiece...
...bought your Star Wars issue for my 11-year-old son [CINEMA, April 26] and greatly enjoyed listening to him announce over breakfast the latest news and trivia about Episode I--The Phantom Menace. As a parent, I am happy to take him to see this film--not just for the dazzling special effects or the exciting story but because the Star Wars saga celebrates free will and contains lessons about persistence, faith and the necessity of hope. These stories appeal to children; they never condescend but include their young audience in the fantasy and fun. My son proclaimed...