In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City s ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre paved the way for six months of theatregoing in Paris and a month s sojourn at the 2006 Avignon Festival. In "French Theatre Today" he turns his yearlong involvement with this rich topic into an accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive overview of contemporary French theatre. Situating many of the nearly 150 stage pieces he attended within...
In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City s ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact wit...
Marcel Carne symbolizes the period, approximately 1930-1945, when French cinema recaptured the creative vitality and prestige it had relinquished almost completely to the American film industry. The first critical biography of this director of classic films, including the epic historical romance "Les Enfants du paradis" (Children of Paradise), relates the saga of Carne s meteoric rise in the 1930s and his decline from critical grace after the war.
Between 1937 and 1945 Carne directed a number of works that are now part of France s cultural patrimony, most notably "Le Quai des Brumes"...
Marcel Carne symbolizes the period, approximately 1930-1945, when French cinema recaptured the creative vitality and prestige it had relinquished ...