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...When the French talk about love, it's hard to stop them. And no one should try when the French are speaking in one of the dozens of feature films written and directed by Eric Rohmer. The characters in his films were eloquent, addled, obsessively pursuing a line of romantic rhetoric or analyzing the erotic attraction of a teenager's knee. Applying a wry, professorial tone to the book of love, Rohmer beguiled two generations of art-house denizens. His purchase on their finer fancies began with My Night at Maud's, the 1969 chatfest that swept him into...
...Jean-Luc Godard. Within a few years they - and François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol - were writing for Cahiers du Cinéma, which Rohmer edited from 1956 to 1963. No film magazine was so influential as Cahiers in those years. The young firebrands excoriated the prevailing French cinema and championed Hollywood directors like Howard Hawks, Samuel Fuller, George Cukor and Alfred Hitchcock. (Rohmer and Chabrol co-authored one of the earliest Hitchcock monographs.) Soon, their revolution in criticism spread to the screen. Godard made Breathless, Truffaut The 400 Blows. Their Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) was cresting; its influence...
...steer an overeager Washington away from precipitate action against Iraq. Campbell told the inquiry of British efforts in the months after 9/11 to remind their U.S. allies, "Hold on a minute: this is about the Taliban. This is about Afghanistan." Only when the diplomatic route had been blocked by French intransigence at the U.N. did Blair reluctantly conclude that military action was unavoidable, according to Campbell...
...size and relative unimportance. "Is this reaction due to the fact that Iceland is a small country?" Latvian Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins asked on Jan. 7. "It is difficult to imagine that similar comments would be heard if, for example, such a step had been taken by the French President." Iceland has also garnered the support of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, a British antipoverty organization. "Iceland's President was correct to assert that states in debt have rights that trump the rights of creditors to bleed their economies dry," says Nick Dearden, the group's director...
...month we'll be treated to the spectacles of Jackie Chan as a babysitter in The Spy Next Door and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a brutal hockey player who's forced to become The Tooth Fairy. But in February there's the new Martin Scorsese, plus a fine French thriller A Prophet and the sequel to the parkour classic District 13. So there's reason for optimism at the movie houses, long before the next Leap Year...