Curated by Sylvie Ramond, director of Lyon's Musée du Beaux - Arts, and
French Academy director Eric de Chassey, the exhibition contains the experiments on canvas Soulage began working on in 2000, when he returned to painting after years of absence.
Not exact matches
Beauvois's film (the
French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the
Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best
Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.
The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran
French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the
Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer,
director, and producer.
The
French Connection helped usher in the second golden age of Hollywood (arguably the best decade in movie history) and went on to win 5
Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best
Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - time.
In the last 12 months,
French director Agnès Varda became the oldest Oscar nominee in history for Faces Places, as well as the winner of an Honorary
Academy Award — a long - overdue recognition of the
director's work.
The other three nominees are the colorful «La Femme et le TGV» (starring
French New Wave icon Jane Birkin, mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the lead role), which will tug the heart strings of older
Academy members, the poignant choir drama «Sing,» from London - based Hungarian
director Kristof Deák, and Spanish
director Juanjo Giménez's «Timecode,» an elegant portrait of loneliness and connection.
• Dennis Lim, meanwhile, chats it up with «Class»
director Laurent Canet in the wake of his film landing the official
French foreign film selection for this year's
Academy Awards.
Claude Lelouch)-- World Premiere A successful film composer (
Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin, The Artist) falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet, in this glorious romantic drama from the great
French director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman).
Seeing, or rather hearing, William Friedkin is a rare treat for horror fans and cinephiles, given that the celebrated
director is best known for his work on behind the camera on films like The French Connection, which won him an Academy Award for Best D
director is best known for his work on behind the camera on films like The
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Academy Award for Best
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First female head of major studio and
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Having worked with the
French automatic pool cover innovator for more than a year, Pool Tech Managing
Director Danny Grant knew that DEL would have a solution when St Wilfrid's
Academy, near Wigan, contacted him about replacing their bulky cover.
Tom Bennett, Founder of ResearchEd and Chair of the Department for Education Behaviour Group John Blake, History Consultant & Leading Practitioner at Harris Federation Christine Counsell,
Director of Education, Inspiration Trust Anthony Denny, Parent & Governor, Jane Austen College Rachel De Souza, CEO, Inspiration Trust Toby
French, Lead Practitioner, Torquay
Academy Claire Heald, Executive Principal, Jane Austen College Karl Hoods, Chairman of Governors, Harris
Academy Beckenham Hywel Jones, Head Teacher, West London Free School Michaela Khatib, Executive Head, Cobham Free School Mark Lehain, Principal, Bedford Free School Stuart Lock, Head Teacher, Cottenham Village College Helena Mills, CEO, Burnt Mills
Academy Trust Munira Mirza, Former Deputy Mayor of Education and Culture for London Dan Moynihan, CEO, Harris Federation Libby Nicholas, CEO, Reach 4
Academy Trust Sara Noel, Parent and Governor, Cottenham Village College Martyn Oliver, CEO, Outwood Grange
Academies Trust James O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Floreat Education
Academies Trust Bruno Reddy, Maths Social Entrepreneur & former Head of Maths at King Solomon
Academy Martin Robinson, Educationalist & author of Trivium21c Mark Rose, Governor, Great Yarmouth Primary
Academy Jo Saxton, CEO, Turner Schools Multi-
Academy Trust Tony Sewell, Founder of Generating Genius Jonathan Simons, Head of Education at Policy Exchange & Chairman of Governors, Greenwich Free School Luke Sparkes, Principal, Trinity
Academy Alex Wade, Parent and Chairman of Governors, Fulham Boys School Claire Ward, Parent, Cobham Free School Rachel Wolf, Founder of The New Schools Network & Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Education
Plus: Elmhurst Art Museum appoints John McKinnon as executive
director Works missing from Air India's # 200m art collection Christie's sues Delta Airlines for Gerhard Richter painting damage and
French Academy in Rome removes upper age limit for Villa Medici fellows
Éric de Chassey, curator of the exhibition and
director of the
French Academy in Rome — Villa Medici, has selected around one hundred works of primal importance organised in ten sections, of which three are dedicated to some of the movement's greatest names: Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Hans Hartung, and Swiss artist Gérard Schneider.
He is currently the artistic
director of Capo d'Arte, a non-profit organisation dedicated to contemporary art, which every summer also holds a series of exhibitions in Gagliano del Capo (Lecce), in collaboration with Villa Medici: the
French Academy in Rome.