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...suspension and a light chassis. For touring long distances, the custom biker will ask for an intercom system and heated seats and handlebars. Just cruising? He can do that on a chopper or a bagger with a hand-painted body and intricately detailed metalwork. The American artist Michael Godard ordered an $85,000 gangster-themed chopper with images from his collections painted onto the rear fender and bike body and sculpted revolvers adorning the spokes. "Bourget's builds rolling eye candy," says Arthur Coldwells, editor and publisher of Robb Report MotorCycling. "These are gorgeously detailed motorcycles you ride...
France's movie industry, the world's largest a century ago, has yet to recapture its New Wave eminence of the 1960s, when directors like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were rewriting cinematic rules. France still churns out about 200 films a year, more than any other country in Europe. But most French films are amiable, low-budget trifles for the domestic market. American films account for nearly half the tickets sold in French cinemas. Though homegrown films have been catching up in recent years, the only vaguely French film to win U.S. box-office glory this...
...Handling, Cowan and their team must also play the role of efficient concierges for their more demanding guests. In 1996, Jean-Luc Godard, the ageless enfant terrible of the French New Wave, agreed to accompany his film For Ever Mozart to Toronto. "He had only two conditions," Handling recalls. "He insisted on a video suite to cut his movie, which we got for him; and he wanted to play tennis. So we brought in a tennis...
...than 24 hours, the emperors of angst were gone. Bergman, 89, and Antonioni, 94, were two of the three surviving auteurs who defined serious European movies in the 60s - when serious movies pretty much were European. Of the decade's transcendent film figures, only that perpetual iconoclast Jean-luc Godard, 76, is left standing. If I were he, I'd insist on round-the-clock medical attention...
...Five Films,” which screened at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last week. Presented through the combined efforts of the HFA, French Cultural Services, and Cahiers du Cinema—the legendary film magazine born in the 1960s from the pens of cinematic superstars like Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut—“Five Films” brought “Louvre City,” “Animals and More Animals,” “To Be and To Have,” “In the Land...