Frame from Duras' "India Song"

Lovely Joe Lally just gave me this heads up on the amazing Marguerite Duras retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives. If you only know Duras as the screenwriter of Resnais incredible "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (or the controversial novelist of "The Lover") then here is a chance to experience her body of work in its full scope. Full details after the jump

Still from "The Conformist"

Issey Ogata as Emperor Hiroito in Alexander Sokurov's "The Sun"

On my last visit to Tokyo, I remember a night drive through Marunouchi,

Black White + Gray from Canadian Art on Vimeo.

Robert Mapplethorpe has always been a problematic artist.

Les dames du Bois de Boulogne: French poster

One of my favorite characters is Helene in Robert Bresson's 1945 film Les dames du Bois de Boulogne which is my favorite French film.

Breathless for the Doug Aitken

The Museum of Modern Art presents MoMA Premiere: Elevated, a collaborative event that blurs the boundaries between film, music, and performance.

Audrey Tatou comme Coco Chanel.

In all this hither and tither on Air France...a surprise bonus. They're screening "Coco Avant Chanel"

I'll say it again. This film is THE apothesis of intellectual French glamour

I have a bad reputation for playing this movie each and every time I have guests over.

The French poster for Death In Venice is a lovely piece of graphic design. Get into those colors!

The cognoscenti have always loved this film. The avid worship from the dedicated aesthetes was there back in in 1971.