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Kylie Jenner stars in Miu Miu’s new AW25 campaign, further cementing her influence in the world of luxury fashion.

Kylie Jenner becomes the new face of Miu Miu, marking a significant milestone in her ongoing rise within the luxury fashion industry. The entrepreneur and influencer fronts the Italian fashion house’s Autumn/Winter 2025 campaign in a collaboration that has already made waves across the industry.

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Miu Miu’s choice of Kylie as brand ambassador represents a strategic shift aimed at connecting with a younger, more global audience. While her sister Kendall Jenner has long been a regular on high fashion runways, this time it’s Kylie taking centre stage—proving her influence extends well beyond the realms of beauty and social media.

The campaign showcases a refined and sophisticated aesthetic, featuring Jenner alongside a diverse group of talents including singer Towa Bird, actresses Lou Doillon,...

Paris-based sales and production company Totem has boarded “Quasi a Casa,” directed by Carolina Pavone.

The film is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa for Vivo Film, and by Palme d’Or winner Nanni Moretti for Sacher Film. Fandango – behind festival favorites “Orlando, My Political Biography” and “The Survival of Kindness” – will handle Italian distribution.

Described as a “pop drama,” it follows Caterina. Now in her 20s, she wants to be a musician, but she’s paralyzed by fear and insecurity. One summer, she meets her idol, the French singer Mia and gets to know her. It’s the beginning of a complex relationship that will accompany Caterina over the years and finally allow her to find home. Almost.

The logline states: “There comes a time in everyone’s life, when we need to start figuring out what our place in the world is.”

Newcomer Maria Chiara Arrighini plays Caterina.

French actresss Judith Godrèche has filed an official police complaint against Jacques Doillon, accusing him of two counts of sexual assault in the 1980s when she was a minor.

News of the complaint came just one day after Godrèche revealed in an interview with Le Monde newspaper she had filed a complaint against director Benoît Jacquot for “rapes with violence of a minor less than 15-years-old”.

The Paris Prosecutor’s office has since confirmed to Deadline that a case has been opened.

Godrèche, who is now 51, lived with Jacquot for six years and appeared in his films The Beggars and The Disenchanted, before leaving him in her early 20s.

The actress says she was 14-years-old when the relationship began while the director was 40 and that she was “under his influence”. Jacquot has denied the accusations saying they were in a “loving” relationship.

The actress publicly made the accusations against Doillon...

Thierry Frémaux is best known internationally as the long-time head of France’s Cannes Film Festival, which is organized out of its offices in Paris’s trendy Marais neighborhood.

The double-hatted cinema expert is perhaps more in his element in his home city of Lyon, where he is the director of the Institut Lumière, situated on the site of the former mansion and factory of cinema pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière.

Alongside its late co-founders Bernard Chardère and Bertrand Tavernier, Frémaux has been a driving force behind the expansion of the institute and its activities, including the creation of its classic cinema-focused Lumière Film Festival, which has just wrapped its 15th edition.

Highlights this year included German director Wim Wenders receiving its prestigious Lumière Prize, following in the footsteps of the likes of Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion and Francis Ford Coppola. As part of the honor, the Paris,...

Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg made a moving presentation of her documentary Jane By Charlotte, capturing her complex relationship with her late mother Jane Birkin, ahead of a screening at the Lumière Film Festival on Saturday.

The documentary is playing as part of a tribute to iconic UK-French actress and singer Birkin, who died on July 16 at the age of 76.

Sparked by Gainsbourg’s desire to get closer to her mother amid a sense that time was running out, the film follows Birkin on tour in Japan, at her beloved Breton home and also on a visit to the untouched Paris mansion she once shared with Serge Gainsbourg.

“I haven’t yet dared to take on board what this film will mean in my eyes in the future. I miss her so much that I am not formulating anything yet,” a visibly moved Gainsbourg told a packed cinema in Lyon.

“But I...

Pressman Film is a production company that was founded by Ed Pressman, a prolific producer of over 90 films, including the likes of Wall Street, American Psycho, and The Crow. Sadly, Pressman passed away earlier this year at the age of 79. Now his son Sam Pressman is the CEO of Pressman Film, which recently rebooted The Crow – and landed an eight-figure domestic distribution deal for the film with Lionsgate. Moving forward, the company is working with Antoine Fuqua on a project called The Street, which was written by Goodfellas‘ Nicholas Pileggi, and planning an adaptation of the 1975 Edward Abbey novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which will be directed by Catfish‘s Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. They’re also trying to figure out how they can exploit titles in the Pressman Film library… and in a recent article, Deadline mentions that endeavor might involve remakes of the 1980 holiday horror film Christmas Evil...

French multi-hyphenate Lou Doillon, who is Jane Birkin’s daughter, is set to star in Italian comedy “Quasi a casa” directed by Carolina Pavone, a former assistant director on several Nanni Moretti films.

Shooting is underway in Rome on the sophisticated comedy, in which Doillon — a model, actor and singer-songwriter, like her half-sister Charlotte Gainsbourg — plays an eclectic, successful singer who strikes up a turbulent friendship with a younger female musician who idolizes her.

Doillon became a French fashion icon in her teens after working with famed atelier Givenchy and is currently the testimonial of Cartier’s new Baignoire watchmaking collection. The Parisian star first acted in Italy in Abel Ferrara’s “Go Go Tales” and more recently appeared in French director Maïween’s “Polisse” and in “A Child of Yours” directed by her father, Jacques Doillon.

Pavone is a promising young helmer who has worked with Moretti on “My Mother” and “Three Floors,...

Jane Birkin graced the front pages of most French newspapers on Monday as France mourned the death of the late British actress and singer who enjoyed icon status in the country that she had called home since the late 1960s.

“Our tears can’t change anything,” proclaimed Le Parisien newspaper, which first broke the news of Birkin’s death at the age of 76 on Sunday.

Libération ran with the simple headline “Without Jane”, while regional newspaper Le Maine Libre referred to the late actress as “The Eternal English Bride of France”.

International obituaries have highlighted Birkin’s notorious performance with partner and late bad boy of French pop music Serge Gainsbourg on the 1968 pop song, ‘Je t’aime… moi non plus’, or the fact she inspired the Hermès Birkin bag.

For the French, she was much more.

In a six-page tribute, Libération mused over the reasons for Birkin’s never-ending...

Birkin’s death has shocked her adopted France over the long Bastille Day weekend.

Anglo-French actress, director and singer Jane Birkin has died at the age of 76.

Born and brought up in the UK, Birkin rose to fame in France in the 1960s with a parallel acting and singing career and became a global fashion icon and a woman’s rights activist. France claimed the naturalised citizen as their own.

Birkin starred in around 70 films including Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow Up, 1969’s The Swimming Pool opposite Alain Delon and Romy Schneider, Roger Vadim’s Don Juan, Or if Don...

Jane Birkin, the British-French actress, singer, and style icon who inspired the eponymous Hermès Birkin handbag, has died at the age of 76.

According to Le Parisien, the iconic singer-actress was found dead at her home in Paris on Sunday. No further details have been shared at this time. Birkin had canceled a series of performances in Paris scheduled earlier this year for health reasons. She was previously diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and suffered from a minor stroke in 2021.

Jane Mallory Birkin was born in Marylebone, London on December 14th, 1946. Raised in Chelsea with her brother, screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin, she audition for small acting parts before marrying composer John Barry in 1965 and giving birth to her first child, the late photographer Kate Barry, in 1967. In the meantime, she landed breakthrough roles in 1966’s Blow-Up and Kaleidoscope as well as 1968’s Wonderwall.

Birkin and Barry divorced in 1968, and the actress moved to Paris,...

Jane Birkin, the British-French actress, singer, and style icon who inspired the eponymous Hermès Birkin handbag, has died at the age of 76.

According to Le Parisien, the iconic singer-actress was found dead at her home in Paris on Sunday. No further details have been shared at this time. Birkin had canceled a series of performances in Paris scheduled earlier this year for health reasons. She was previously diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and suffered from a minor stroke in 2021.

Jane Mallory Birkin was born in Marylebone, London on December 14th, 1946. Raised in Chelsea with her brother, screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin, she audition for small acting parts before marrying composer John Barry in 1965 and giving birth to her first child, the late photographer Kate Barry, in 1967. In the meantime, she landed breakthrough roles in 1966’s Blow-Up and Kaleidoscope as well as 1968’s Wonderwall.

Birkin and Barry divorced in 1968, and the actress moved to Paris,...

Jane Birkin, the Anglo-French actress, singer and fashion icon known in part for her decade-long romantic and artistic partnership with musician Serge Gainsbourg, died Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced. She was 76.

It was first reported in Le Parisien and Bfm television that Birkin had been found dead at her home in Paris. The actress suffered a mild stroke in 2021, but her cause of death has not yet been revealed.

“Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the most beautiful words of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon. A complete artist, her voice was as sweet as her engagements were fiery. She bequeaths us tunes and images that will never leave us,” Macron wrote in a statement posted on Twitter.

Born in 1946 in London, Birkin began her career while still a teenager as part of the “Swinging London” scene of the 1960s. She appeared mainly in small roles in art and counterculture films,...

Jane Birkin, the iconic British-born actress, singer and model who became a chart-topping artist in France with her collaborations with then-partner Serge Gainsbourg, has died at the age of 76.

Birkin’s death was announced Sunday by the French culture ministry, which said Birkin was found dead at her Paris home. No cause of death was provided. Birkin recently canceled concerts due to unspecified health reasons; in recent years, she also suffered a stroke and battled leukemia.

French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted Sunday, “Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the...

Jane Birkin, the beloved British-French actor and singer who spent most of her life in France and is known for a tumultuous relationship with French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, died on Sunday at her home in Paris, according to Le Parisien newspaper. She was 76.

No cause of death has yet been confirmed.

Birkin was best known internationally for her steamy 1969 duet “Je t’aime… moi non plus” which she sang with Gainsbourg, one year after meeting him on the shoot of Pierre Grimblat’s “Slogan.” Although she hadn’t broken through at the time, she had a small but memorable part in Michelangelo Antonioni’s sultry 1966 film “Blow Up.”

Together, Birkin and Gainsbourg had a daughter, the actor and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. After splitting in 1980, the pair remained close and pursued their artistic collaboration. Birkin was creatively involved in three albums by Gainsbourg, “Baby Alone in Babylone” in 1983, “Lost Song” in...

Jane Birkin, the singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lover of French bad boy Serge Gainsbourg and became a beloved figure in her adopted France, has died. She was 76.

The French culture minister announced the news on Sunday following reports in Le Parisien newspaper and Bfm television that said Birkin had been found dead at her home in Paris. She had suffered a mild stroke in 2021.

Although born in London, Birkin would find fame singing in French. Her duet with Gainsbourg on the sexually explicit song “Je t’aime…moi non plus” (which was banned in several countries and condemned by the Vatican) made her a household name around the world.

The song was recorded in 1968, just months after the pair — Birkin, then 22 years old, and Gainsbourg 40 — had first met on the set of the film Slogan, forging a turbulent relationship that would...

When Laurence Herszberg first launched Series Mania back in 2010 in Paris, the former Forum des Images director was keen to apply her deep knowledge of film and the film festival model to the television sector. At the time, says the French exec, no one was doing any kind of TV festival “solely dedicated to series.”

“No one was really talking about TV series,” the festival general director tells Deadline. “So, I decided to do something for the public just to try and see and imagine how it would work in the television sector.”

Little did she know how much the industry would shift, with much of the balance (and money) now lying in the scripted television sphere rather than the independent film space. As a result, across the last 13 years Herszberg and her team have been able to nurture and grow Series Mania into one of the most attractive events in the global TV calendar.

Event closes with Anna Winger’s Netflix series Transatlantic.

Series Mania will kick off its 2023 event with Cédric Klapisch’s Amazon French Original series Greek Salad before serving up 32 world premieres, an industry Forum, and closing with Anna Winger’s Netflix series Transatlantic.

The International Competition of the annual television festival and industry event includes Franco-Belgian Arte series Grace of Heaven, Apple TV+, France Televisions and Hulu Japan’s Drops of God, Paramount+’s Spanish Fleeting Lies, Reshet 13’s Israeli series Red Skies, Viaplay’s Norwegian The Fortress and Prime Video’s US series The Power. Among the titles from...

The world premieres of Cédric Klapisch’s Amazon Prime Video show “Greek Salad” and Anna Winger’s Netflix series “Transatlantic” will open and close the 2023 edition of Series Mania.

The event will feature masterclasses with “Succession” star Brian Cox, “Westworld” producer Lisa Joy, who also will preside over the international competition jury, Klapisch and renowned French actors Cécile de France (“Lost Illusions”) and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (“Emily in Paris”).

Series in the international competition this year include Arte’s “Grace of Heaven” (France/Belgium); Apple TV+, France Télévisions, Hulu Japan’s “Drops of God” (France/U.S./Japan); Paramount+’s “Fleeting Lies” (Spain); Mega TV’s “Milky Way” (Greece); Reshet 13’s “Red Skies” (Israel); Filimo, Namava’s “The Actor” (Iran); Viaplay’s “The Fortress” (Norway); and Prime Video’s “The Power” (U.S.)

The international jury, which also includes French actor Emmanuelle Béart, British showrunner-screenwriter Chris Chibnall (“Broadchurch”), French-British singer-songwriter and actor Lou Doillon,...

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On Wednesday evening, Hollywood stylists Jason Rembert, Philippe Uter and Nicolas Bru were in the crowd at Citizen News in Hollywood to fete their colleague Law Roach’s debut fashion designs. The Hollywood Reporter‘s Top Stylist of The Year in 2021 has teamed up with Parisian luxury label Hervé Léger for a limited-edition resort collection due to land in October.

In advance of the party, Roach — who counts Zendaya, Venus Williams, Bella Hadid, Kerry Washington, Priyanka Chopra Jones, and Hunter Schafer as clients — specially invited THR onto the set of a first photo shoot for the line.

Born in 1985, the Hervé Léger brand made a name in the late ’80s and early ’90s with signature bandage dresses, as seen on the likes of Salma Hayek,...

At the start of Jane B. par Agnès V., a 1988 documentary made about singer and actress Jane Birkin by, well, the French director Agnès Varda, Birkin sits in period dress and looks directly at the camera with her characteristic deadpan expression. She talks about the nausea she feels when she looks at herself in the mirror and sees the signs of aging on her body. She has just turned 40 but talks as though she is much older, the consequence of experience.At the 2021 Cannes premiere of her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new documentary, titled Jane par Charlotte in deliberate homage to Varda’s film, Birkin is 74. She arrives dressed in the relaxed-fit blue jeans and oversized white shirt she made iconic in her twenties. She seems to be inviting comparison, to highlight how much she has aged while retaining her je ne sais quoi. Something so deliberate must come from a position of self-confidence,...

“What the Devil hath joined together, let no man cast asunder,” reads the gleefully blasphemous tagline of Brian De Palma’s 1973 horror film Sisters, the auteur’s first foray into his obsessive Hitchcockian homage landscapes as well as his breakthrough film (which was his seventh directorial effort). An early entry in the Criterion canon finally resurrected for Blu-ray, it stars a pre-Lois Lane Margot Kidder as a pair of French-Canadian Siamese twins whose physical separation causes significant psychological and physical distress. Although clearly modeled after key tenets from Vertigo and Rear Window (and features a Bernard Herrmann score rivaling the hysteric depths of his infamous Psycho overture), De Palma’s title also pre-dates the delicious body horror which came to characterize Cronenberg and even inspired a failed 2006 American indie remake (starring Lou Doillon and Chloe Sevigny as the juxtaposed women).…...

Nicki Minaj pulled a Lil' Kim when she attended the Haider Ackermann show at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday. The rapper channeled Lil' Kim's infamous 1999 MTV VMAs outfit by sporting a low-cut black top that featured an exposed breast covered up by a diamond-shaped pasty. Nicki took in the show from the front row next to models Caroline de Maigret and Lou Doillon, and she later uploaded photos from the event on Instagram, writing, "#NickiInPARIS hit the wheel so hard make it rotate...

Rodin

Director: Jacques Doillon

Writer: Jacques Doillon

Seasoned French auteur Jacques Doillon has been making films since the early 1970s and has competed on most of the world’s most noted festival platforms (his daughter Lou Doillon has followed in his directing footsteps).

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“Do you like being filmed and talking about yourself,” director Agnès Varda asks star and subject Jane Birkin in the 1987 film Jane B. for Agnès V. “Yes and no,” comes the fittingly ambiguous answer. This fascinating film, recently released on a Cinelicious Pics Blu-ray alongside Kung-Fu Master! (1987), the purely fictional feature born from the quasidocumentary’s unique study of Birkin as an actress and the art of performance in general, is a movie made of memories, fantasies, and the hazy area where the two coalesce. Essentially derived from Birkin’s stated fear of turning 40, Jane B. for Agnès V. is a ruminative examination of Birkin’s life and work, but it is just as much a revealing look at Varda as an inventive filmmaker. “I'm filming your self-portrait,” Varda says to Birkin, setting up the blurring of authorial lines and not for the first time calling attention...

John Cale hosted an early 50th anniversary celebration for the classic Velvet Underground & Nico Sunday at Paris' La Phihamonie, with the cellist recruiting artists like Animal Collective, the Libertines' Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, Mark Lanegan, Etienne Daho, Lou Doillon and more to assist him on playing cuts from both that 1967 LP and other tracks from the Vu catalog.

Animal Collective, who previously teamed with Cale on the band's Painting With cut "Hocus Pocus," performed "There She Goes Again" with the Velvet Underground rocker, while Cale himself put a droning...

One of the best double features you could treat yourself to this year would be a back-to-back viewing of two Agnes Varda films starring Jane Birkin, rescued from obscurity in 2015 thanks to Cinelicious Pics. Both released originally in 1988, the imaginary bio-pic Jane B. Par Agnes V. and the provocative fictional narrative Kung-Fu Master! are available on a lovingly restored disc set (as the playful Venn diagram cover art implies, the titles are more inextricably connected than initially seems apparent). Both titles received a theatrical release at New York’s Lincoln Center, followed by a VOD release.

Jane B. Par Agnes V.

A playful exploration of the multi-faceted actress, singer, and icon Jane Birkin as she balances career choices and motherhood long after the initial scandals that brought her international attention. Filmed in tandem with their other collaboration, the fictional narrative Kung Fu Master!, both titles were released theatrically in 1988 when...

Le voyage de Fanny

Director: Lola Doillon

Writer: Lola Doillon

Director Lola Doillon comes from French cinematic royalty, the daughter of director Jacques Doillon and editor Noelle Boisson is half-sister to model/actress Lou Doillon and married to director Cedric Klapisch. She’s about to unveil her third feature le voyage de Fanny (The Voyage of Fanny) in 2016, which concerns the exodus of a group of Jewish children from France to Switzerland as they attempt to evade the Nazis. Excitingly, Doillon has cast Belgian actress Cecile De France in the adult lead role.

Cast: Cecile De France, Marina Vlady, Jeanne Abraham

Production Co./Producers: Bee Films, Origami Films, Scope Pictures

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic) Diaphana Films (international).

Release Date: Doillon nabbed Kristin Scott Thomas for her 2010 sophomore film In Your Hands, which went to the BFI London Film Festival to premiere. Her pedigree paired with De France...

Oedipus at the Arcade: Varda’s Empathetic Exploration of Taboo

Invariably, most conversations concerning Agnes Varda, the sole female auteur amongst the prized clutch of men whose names project like immortal pillars from the fog of the Nouvelle Vague, reference her two most renowned titles, Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962) and Vagabond (1985). But in-between and after these two iconic moments from her filmography lies a sea of titles waiting to be re-discovered (a recent disc-set from Criterion’s Eclipse series several weeks ago was a first step in exploring her more obscure works).

Boutique distributor Cinelicious Pics continues in this vein with two digital restorations of Varda’s from 1988, both inextricably linked via star Jane Birkin (after a theatrical bow in New York, both titles will move on to Los Angeles). The more textually subversive of these is Kung Fu Master!, a sympathetic tale of doomed love between a 40-year-old...

Following the success of Bob Geldof’s latest Band Aid effort to fight Ebola, France will soon have its own charity Christmas tune. Former first lady and current Bvlgari model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will lead the effort, to be called Christmas is Here (Noel est la). She will be joined by French music and film stars, including Vanessa Paradis, Lou Doillon, Cesar-winner Izia Higelin and popular rapper-turned-actor Joey Starr. Singer and composer Jean-Louis Albert, who scored 2008’s I’ve Loved you So Long starring Kristin Scott Thomas, and French Idol (Nouvelle Star) winner Christophe Willem will also participate, according

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Deauville -- The 39th American Film Festival handed out its awards, with Night Moves taking the top honors. The Grand Prix was awarded to director Kelly Reichardt for her domestic terrorism thriller. Reichardt could not attend the festival but gave an acceptance speech by Skype from her home in New York. Story: Director Bong Joon-Ho Shoots Down Reports of Cut to 'Snowpiercer' In a rare move, the jury -- presided over by president Vincent Lindon and jurors Lou Doillon, Jean Echenoz, Helene Fillieres, Xavier Giannoli, Famke Janssen, Pierre Lescure, Bruno Nuytten and Rebecca Zlotowski -- decided to hand out two Prix du Jury. The first went

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Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer will close the 39th annual Deauville American Film Festival, set to run from Aug 30-Sept 8.

Festival organisers also announced that Kids director Larry Clark will receive a tribute and be the subject of a complete retrospective.

Alexander Moors’ Blue Caprice and Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves have been added to the competition line-up.

Famke Janssen has joined the jury, which is presided over by Vincent Lindon and includes Lou Doillon, Jean Echenoz, Helene Fillieres, Xavier Giannoli, Pierre Lescure, Bruno Nuytten and Rebecca Zlotowsk.

The Premieres roster includes Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Lovelace, Pain & Gain, Parkland, Sunlight Jr, The Frozen Ground, The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman, The Wait and Upstream Color.

Five Albums You Should Be Listening To Right Now: Ladygunn By Gina Tron Gina Tron is the features editor for Ladygunn, a NY and La based bad-ass magazine that focuses on music, fashion, art, and culture. 1. Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour (1969) How can you not enjoy the beautiful sounds of Stevie Wonder, one of the most prolific Soul & R&B artists of all time? And on none better than his 11th album which kicks off with one of the best songs ever written about unrequited love, “My Cherie Amour.” A great bonus on this album is Stevie’s take on The Doors hit “Light My Fire.” 2. Lou Doillon - Places (2012) Not only is this French singer a model, an accomplished actress, and a major muse behind Givenchy, but she is a hell of a singer. The underlying themes in this album seem to be desperation and [...]...

Lou Doillon may be the daughter of French filmmaker Jaques Doillon and actress Jane Birkin, but Lou is rapidly developing a following of her own. The model/actress-turned-musician spent much of her childhood writing songs in English, and a listen to the content she’s producing makes it clear that she’s inherited a talent all her own. Doillon is set to release her first full length album Places on June 18, but you can listen to a track from the album in the player below. ...

James Franco is adding to his already impressive resume -- by directing another campaign for denim brand 7 For All Mankind.A trailer for the company's new campaign debuted earlier today on their YouTube page, with appearances from the actor, "Magic Mike" star Cody Horn and models Lily Donaldson and Lou Doillon.The campaign was shot all over Los Angeles -- with shoots at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Mark Mahoney’s Shamrock Tattoo Parlor and the Los Angeles Theatre."The big thing I am trying to access is memory and how we deal with memory, what that means, how we remember people and who creates the lasting images of people," Franco says of the campaign. “7 for All Mankind’s clothes to me read as a great mixture of contemporary and cool retro and denim speaks to that," he adds. "It’s been the core clothing material at the center of hip...

Take that, Kate and Pippa Middleton! Back to the drawing board, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles! As part of its annual Best Dressed Issue, Vogue has named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen its best dressed siblings for 2011. It’s just another award to add to the mantel for the perennial Anna Wintour darlings. Not only have they been setting style trends since they were in rompers, the 25-year-old twins have established themselves as in-demand fashion designers with their lines The Row and Elizabeth & James (the latter is named in part after their emerging starlet sister). So other familial fashionistas made the list?...

Kate Moss was back on the runway this morning to walk in the Spring 2012 Louis Vuitton show. She also took to the catwalk for her longtime friend Marc Jacobs last season when she memorably strutted her stuff while smoking a cigarette. Many famous faces were on hand to see Kate's latest turn and Marc's new designs. Nicole Richie and Joel Madden popped over to France after spending a weekend in London. Rachel Zoe, Anna Wintour, Uma Thurman, Alexa Chung, and Olivia Wilde were also there. Nicole was evidently impressed to see iconic Kate in the flesh. She tweeted, "Watching Kate Moss close the Louis Vuitton show just killed me." Kate's relationship with Marc and Louis Vuitton was cemented when she inked a deal with their parent company Lvmh's Fred jewelry brand. In fact, Kate held a reception for friends at the Ritz hotel last night to celebrate the launch of her new necklaces,...

Just days before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, a clip for Polisse has been released, offering a sneak peak at Maïwenn's first official entry at the fest.  The actress, screenwriter and director, who was once married to Luc Besson, is one of the many female filmmakers selected for the official competition this year. She also has a supporting role in the film. Read the synopsis and check out the images after the jump.  The 2011 Cannes Film Festival starts tomorrow and runs through May 22nd. Starring Karin Viard, Marina Foïs, French rap star Joey Starr, Lou Doillon, Sandrine Kiberlain and Anthony Delon (Alain's son), Polisse is slated for release in France on October 19. Read the synopsis before checking out the French video on Allociné: The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over...

One of the movies that will premiere In Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is an upcoming French drama titled Polisse, and we’re here today to have a little chat about a project that definitely deserves our attention.

And no, it’s not just because Maiwenn Le Besco was in charge for this one, although I’m sure you all remember her as the Diva from Luc Besson‘s The Fifth Element.

Polisse is a movie that follows a journalist covering the juvenile unit of a police force, and it’s a story both written and directed by Maiwenn Le Besco (or, simply Maiwenn). As usual, she’s the part of the cast, too, and the rest of the cast includes Karin Viard, Marina Foïs, Joey Starr, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Karole Rocher and Lou Doillon.

Here’ the synopsis for Polisse: Fred, a rebel at the juvenile division in Paris,...

A new French film called Gigola is premiering at the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival this coming weekend and it sounds like something that is right up my ally. The movie is adapted by Laure Charpentier from one of her own novels, and is set in "the sexy Parisian lesbian underworld of the 1960s."

Sexy? Parisian? The decade of free love? Shall I continue?

The Guardian gave Gigola a rave review, writing:

It's steamy, saucy, racy and suffused with the feeling of wickedness you might get from drinking spirits before lunch or smoking in church.

Lou Doillon is the star of the film, and she starts out as a young student, George, who is involved with her teacher. When her lover kills herself, George decides to do something rash, so she chops her hair, acquires a cane and becomes a "Gigola," aka a female gigolo.

This film has a lot of sex,...

Laure Charpentier's melodrama follows a charismatic young girl on a steamy ride through the lesbian underworld of 60s Paris

This week sees the beginning of the 25th London Lesbian and Gay film festival, an event that has always seemed to me to have a completely admirable emphasis on mischief, enjoyment and fun. And perhaps no film in this year's festival exemplifies this like the extraordinary lesbian crime melodrama Gigola, set in 60s Paris criminal underworld, adapted and directed by Laure Charpentier from her own novels.

Gigola has some highbrow credentials. It features big acting names like Thierry Lhermitte and Almodóvar stalwart Marisa Paredes and is shot by Theo Angelopoulos's cinematographer, Yorgos Arvanitis – but it really is a fantastically naughty, silly and enjoyable film: uncompromisingly camp in its seriousness and high passion, and one of the very few movies that could be called "pulp" cinema. It's steamy, saucy, racy...

What to wear at the catwalk shows? Stick with your pyjamas – and avoid at all costs anything designed by Rachel Zoe

I'm going to Paris fashion week for the first time. What should I wear?

Maria, London

Ah, Paris fashion week. Dieu bless you, mademoiselle, with your way of forcing people to wait for hours in the freezing fricking cold until Alexa Chung, Kate Moss and other luminaries take their seats and shine their gilded light upon some designer. Oui, Paris fashion week, I know thee well.

As such, what to wear for it is my Mastermind specialist subject. To start, pyjamas are de rigueur. Layer on top of that your duvet, bien sûr. And pour the final pièce de résistance, accessorise your look with your hotel bed and stay there for the duration thereof. Alternatively, if you're looking to vary your look (and every look needs a bit of variety to keep it fresh!

Until women reach a 50-50 parity with men directors, my mission continues to count the women directors in upcoming and recent film festivals (and an occasional informal glance at what’s selling in the markets). Women’s films in Berlin reflect women’s place in the world both in content and in the numbers of women represented as directors, producers, writers, etc. John Cooper of Sundance stresses the increasing and possibly 50-50 parity of women producers, but I am looking at the directors. As March is Women’s History Month (and all the other months are Men’s History Month according to Gloria Steinem’s L.A. Times Article of March 4, 2010) this blog is in honor of all women everywhere.

Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for winning the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. La Times puts into perspective the fact that the Best Director Oscar went to Kathryn Bigelow...

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Keeping up on the latest looks, the stars were out for the Christian Dior Autumn-Winter 2010/2011 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris, France on Friday (March 5).

Leading the pack was "Mean Girls" actress Lindsay Lohan, who swapped in and out of a few different outfits as she readied for the Paris Fashion Week catwalk display.

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Also on hand, was Oscar winning beauty Charlize Theron, who snatched up a prime front row seat alongside Bernard and Delphine Arnault.

Not to be forgotten, "30 Seconds to Mars" rocker Jared Leto also turned up for the fashionable affair, chatting with his French model and actress pal, Lou Doillon.

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Enjoy the pictures of the stars out for the Christian Dior show (March 5).

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Keeping up on the latest looks, the stars were out for the Christian Dior Autumn-Winter 2010/2011 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris, France on Friday (March 5).

Leading the pack was "Mean Girls" actress Lindsay Lohan, who swapped in and out of a few different outfits as she readied for the Paris Fashion Week catwalk display.

Also on hand, was Oscar winning beauty Charlize Theron, who snatched up a prime front row seat alongside Bernard and Delphine Arnault.

Not to be forgotten, "30 Seconds to Mars" rocker Jared Leto also turned up for the fashionable affair, chatting with his French model and actress pal, Lou Doillon.

In many ways, Cannes' parallel sidebars (Director's Fortnight, Critic's Week and I'm including Un Certain Regard here) are the hardest sections to forecast - the high volume of films from all corner of the globe and the actual number of available slots makes it perhaps more difficult to predict than the actual Main Competition predictions.. - In many ways, Cannes' parallel sidebars (Director's Fortnight, Critic's Week and I'm including Un Certain Regard here) are the hardest sections to forecast - the high volume of films from all corner of the globe and the actual number of available slots makes it perhaps more difficult to predict than the actual Main Competition predictions (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV). Like other major film festivals, Cannes has their own labs, promoting new talent and I'm expecting to see some of the Atelier names to preem their work at...

Greetings to all the French, my cousins from the other side of the pond! Arte, a French-German over-the-air TV network, has released online the trailer of Les invincibles. This French TV series is adapted from a Quebecker TV series of the same name.

Mano (Jean-Michel Portal), Hassan (Jonathan Cohen), F.X. (Benjamin Bellecour) and Vince (Cédric Ben Abdallah) are four old friends at the end of their twenties. Moreover, they're engaged in a stable relation with their respective girlfriend. However, the four "men" believe that they haven't lived their youth as if they were no tomorrow before the beginning of their thirties. This is why they seal a deal together: on a given day, they simultaneously break up with their respective girlfriend of the moment at 9 Pm. Obviously, this will be hard, but they do it in order to quench their desire for freedom (and problems?). However, the girls won't have it that way.

Robert Doisneau's famous photograph of a couple kissing has inspired a quirky new short film. Janine di Giovanni talks to its director

Yvan Attal is talking about one of the most famous images of Paris – Robert Doisneau's 1950 photograph, Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville, in which a young couple are locked in an embrace as all of Parisian life swirls around them.

This week, French actor-director Attal, 44 (and son-in-law of the late, great French singer Serge Gainsbourg), launches his own tribute to Paris, its lovers and its street life. His three-minute YouTube film, Kisses from Paris, features two beautiful young actors making out all over the city; it's as if Doisneau's couple have returned – and updated their kiss for a new generation. They speak in English, while on the soundtrack Rufus Wainwright sings a melancholy tune.

Attal, speaking in an art deco cinema in a trendy Parisian neighbourhood, was commissioned...

The votes have been compiled and counted, and the readers have spoken: It’s time to announce the winners in our poll of the best horror films and filmmakers of 2008, as well as how the runners-up placed. Elaborating on our report in Fangoria #285 (on sale now), here’s a complete rundown of how the nominees ranked, in descending order, with write-ins also acknowledged (and don’t worry, fans, we’ll get to Martyrs and Deadgirl next year!):

Best Wide-release Film

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (pictured)

Cloverfield

The Strangers

The Ruins

Quarantine

Write-ins: Funny Games; Doomsday; Mirrors

Best Limited-release/Direct-to-video Film

Let The Right One In

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer

Rogue

Stuck

The Living And The Dead

Write-ins: Inside; Machine Girl; Mother Of Tears

Best Actor

Ron Perlman, Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Kare Hedebrant, Let The Right One In

Marc Senter, The Lost

Trevor Matthews, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer

Leo Bill,...

After a few years’ absence, the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are back in their original format, giving you the chance to vote for the best genre films, filmmakers and actors from the past year. There was such a bumper crop of good stuff released in 2008 that narrowing down the nominees to five in certain categories was truly tough; a couple of movies (most notably Splinter) will wait till next year when they’ve gotten more DVD exposure.

E-mail your votes (be sure to vote in all categories; personal e-mails only, no mass ballots) to postalzone@starloggroup.com. For the Fango Hall of Fame, be sure not to vote for Dario Argento, Rick Baker, Clive Barker, Mario Bava, Rob Bottin, Doug Bradley, Tim Burton, Bruce Campbell, James Cameron, John Carpenter, Jeffrey Combs, Don Coscarelli, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Cushing, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Brad Dourif, Robert Englund,...

The Fall fashion shows continued on in Paris over the weekend, with front row staple Kanye West popping up at lots of presentations and parties. He rubbed shoulders with Anna Wintour at Givenchy yesterday afternoon before celebrating the opening of a new Roberto Cavalli boutique alongside Amber Rose, a fur-clad Diane Kruger, and Rachel Zoe. Earlier today, he and Amber were decked out again for Stella McCartney, who also received some support from her dad Paul and fellow vegetarian Pink. Salma Hayek was out for Stella as well, looking very in love with her new husband Francois just as she did last week at Balenciaga. The shows wrap up on Thursday, so stay tuned to Fab for all the news from the runway until then. View 40 Photos › To see more, just read more. View 40 Photos › Images include: Francois-Henri Pinault, Kanye West, Amber Rose, Nancy Shevell, Paul Mccartney, Pink, Salma Hayek,...