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  1. Jacques Chirac -- President Jacques Chirac
    Former French President Jacques Chirac was the butt of jokes, a suspected crook, and very popular with the French people. He was first elected President in 1997, then re-elected in 2002 with almost 82% of the vote. Chirac was the mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, and Prime Minister of France from 1974-76 and again from 1986-88. He first ran for President in 1981, but lost soundly to a Socialist, François Mitterrand. Chirac ran again in 1988, and lost again, then ran a third time in 1995 and won. Opponents and supporters alike call Chirac "the Bulldozer".
  2. Jacques Demy -- Director Jacques Demy
    Jacques Demy was a bit of a happy anomaly among New Wave directors and, as such, his films were dismissed until the fairly recent rediscovery of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Shot in crystalline vivid black and white by Jean Rabier, Bay of Angels is Demy's second film, and it's a little gloomier than the others. Jeanne Moreau stars as Eurotrash Jackie, who loves gambling, she says, for its "stupid mixture of poverty and luxury." This is an early chapter of Demy's courtship with the France of his boyhood, with the most beguiling generation of French actresses, and with movies.
  3. Jacques Feyder -- Francoise Rosay
    After an irreverent satire on French politics, Les Nouveaux Messieurs, which succeeded in getting itself banned, Feyder set out for Hollywood. He directed Garbo in The Kiss, her last silent film and one of her most intelligent roles. Feyder proceeded to tackle the sound film with European versions of Anna Christie, Le Spectre vert, and Olympia. In 1931 he directed Ramon Novarro in Son of India and Day Break before returning to France. Teaming up with his fellow countryman Charles Spaak he made in quick succession Le Grand Jeu, one of the best films of the Foreign Legion; Pension Mimosas, with Rosay in a great tragic role; and the delightful, decorative, and witty La Kermesse héroïque, a costume film that defies the ravages of time. The latter outraged the sensibilities of his fellow Belgians even as it delighted the rest of the world.
  4. Jacques Villeneuve -- Gilles Villeneuve
    Jacques Villeneuve attempted for the second and last time to qualify for the Canadian GP on the track now named after Gilles. Gilles had been the first Canadian to win a F1 race at this same track in 1978. The car is a March design built by the RAM team during one of the lowest points in March's F1 history. After having missed the Detroit GP a week earlier because of sponsorship troubles, the car was flown to the Mosport race track near Toronto so that JV could test it. He had won the Can-Am sports car race at this track the previous week. However when he tried to qualify for the GP in Montreal he could not get enough heat into the tires during the official qualifying session and failed to make the grid. Unfortunately his times during the free practice would have been good enough for a position on the grid.
  5. Jacques Demy -- Catherine Deneuve
    Jacques Demy brings his romantic sensibility and penchant for witty, battle-of-the-sexes comedies to this absurdist tale about a Parisian driving school instructor (Marcello Mastroianni) who discovers that he's pregnant. Much to the dismay of his girlfriend (Catherine Deneuve), an international media frenzy erupts around the hapless couple. The DVD is letterboxed and includes trailer and English dubbed version. In French with English subtitles. France 1973 92 mins.
  6. Jacques Feyder -- Anatole France
    Jacques Feyder had already made two sound films in France; his creative skills were by no means diminished by the new dimension. His successful collaboration with Charles Spaak was to further produce one of the wittiest, most colourful and amusing comedies to reach the screen, La kermesse héroïque. Taking as his subject the period of the great Renaissance of Flemish painting and the less happy era of Spanish domination, Feyder made a major contribution to "women's lib." The film satirizes political, religious, and moral pretentiousness, and the men come off second best when a strong-minded and realistic woman encounters a tricky diplomatic situation.
  7. Jacques Feyder -- Films
    From the cleverness of Jacques Feyder’s Carnival in Flanders to Gérard Depardieu’s flamboyant Cyrano de Bergerac, a variety of serious and humorous themes will be explored during the remaining films in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s winter film series. The series explores life in the time of Claude Lorrain, the artist featured in the current special exhibition Claude Lorrain—The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum on view through April 29. Films are free and held on selected Fridays at 4 pm.
  8. Jacques Feyder -- Jean Vigo
    At other times, Feyder uses the Haut Valois landscape for graphic effects so striking that they momentarily overwhelm the narrative. Descending the side of the mountain after having passed several days in Vissoy, Tailler and Jean pause before a view of Saint-Luc from on high. The village spreads out laterally as in an aerial photograph. The effect is vertiginous. [FIGURE 7] Toward the end of the film, Feyder intercuts between Jeanne saving Jean from the water and Pierre riding home. The hourglass-like composition dominated by the cleave of the waterfall from which Jeanne rescues Jean rhymes with that created by the identical lines of tall trees that line either side of the road along which Pierre directs his cart.
  9. Jacques Villeneuve -- Races
    Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve is set to get back to his motor racing ways after announcing he will make his NASCAR debut testing a Toyota Tundra truck on Monday at the Chicagoland Speedway in Illinois. read more
  10. Charles Baudelaire
    The poetic masterpiece of the great nineteenth-century writer Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil is one of the most frequently read and studied works in the French language. In this compelling new translation of Baudelaire's most famous collection, Keith Waldrop recasts the poet's original French alexandrines and other poetic arrangements into versets, a form that hovers between poetry and prose. Maintaining Baudelaire's complex view of sound and structure, Waldrop's translation mirrors the intricacy of the original without attempting to replicate its inimitable verse. The result is a powerful new re-imagining, one that is, almost paradoxically, closer to Baudelaire's own poetry than any previous English translation. Including the six poems banned from the first edition, this Flowers of Evil preserves the complexity, eloquence, and dark humor of its author. Brought here to new life, it is hypnotic, frank, and forceful.
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