Irma La Douce was a childhood francophile favorite! Just unearthed, the amazing storyboards for the movie?s animated trailer. See them all on?Michael Sporn Animation, and at the bottom a video of the trailer itself.
via Drawn
An entertainment phenomenon is taking France by storm. Bref. is a hilarious and racy TV series, each episode of which lasts about 1.5 to 2 minutes (as the name implies). The format is a high-speed montage of experiences in the life of the endearingly pathetic protagonist played by Kyan Khojandi.
Bref. depicts the modern daily life of single, late 20- and early 30-somethings in Paris and is full of great slang. A hip and creative professor could come up with some fun activities around this series for advanced ? university/adult ? language learners.
The show airs weeknights in France during Le Grand Journal (prime time variety show), and if you?re not in France, you can watch them all here. But be warned, most of these videos are probably NSFW. You can follow the show on Twitter too: @BrefSerie.
Be looking for spinoffs in your own country (though I doubt they?ll be nearly as spicy). It?s only a matter of time!
Photographer Janol Apin does a series of photos in the Paris m?tro consisting of visual puns based on the names of the stations. Above: one meaning of?boulet is ?ball and chain.?
Auction sale of the Fabienne & Fran?ois Marchal Collection of Fairground Art at Drouot Montaigne on September 28-29, 2011. Held by Cornette de Saint-Cyr with nearly 900 lots including a portable Alfred Chanvin & anon. carousel with wooden horses. The entire collection will be displayed at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre from Sept. 23-26.
Read the rest at?Morbid Anatomy.
We could wander these virtual stacks for days! So far, the Biblioth?que nationale de France has digitized more than one million works, including books, maps, manuscripts, images, periodicals, scores and sound recordings, and made them available for free to the public at the Gallica digital library. This is France?s answer to Google Books, and the result of the big fight from a couple of years ago.
Guess all those Lipton commercials convinced someone he was the right man for the job?
Read the rest at?Javert Update.
The Bayeux Tapestry famously offers a pictorial interpretation of the Norman Conquest of England (1066), a pivotal moment in medieval history, and the events leading to the invasion itself.
Read the rest at Open Culture.
If you don?t know Paris-based collage artist Matthew Rose, we want you to! New works on paper from his series ?GOD & COUNTRY? will be available for purchase at the new concept store STORIE in Paris from August 30th through September 30th. Signed, dated posters will be available.
Join us at the vernissage on September 1st!
See the interview with Matthew Rose on France 24 (in English). A high resolution PDF of the poster above is available (free) at?MATTHEW ROSE ART WORKS.
Old French Fairy Tales by la Comtesse de S?gur reminded us of the books we used to get at the library as kids? Look to the left and you?ll notice you can download a PDF of the whole book.
Seen @brainpicker.
French artist Blexbolex has charmed the world with his playful cartoons and illustrations, to which he brings his wonderfully eclectic creative background ? classically trained as a screen-printer in 1980s France, inspired by the whodunits of the 1950s and 60s, and having directed a German art studio in the 1990s, he blends elements of cartoons, graphic novels and soft watercolor painting into simple yet endlessly whimsical artwork.
Read the rest at?Brain Pickings.
We love his style and have four of his books at our Amazon store: Seasons, Abecederia,?People, and Dogcrime.
We love this year?s retro BD-look poster! All the details you need here.
Diddy is a self-proclaimed Francophile: with an album titled ?Last Train to Paris? and premium vodka Ciroc attached to his famous name, you?d think he?d be riding around in a striped shirt, by now, baguette in tow. But it?s precisely this French fascination that recently got the hip-hop mogul and his crew into trouble with customs at Nice?s Cote d?Azur airport last week.
Read the rest at?The Boombox.
?Santo Sospir is a tattooed villa,? says Jean Cocteau as he narrates his home-made movie giving a tour of the villa of a friend whose doors and walls he ?decorated.?
Read more and watch the fascinating video at?U B U W E B.
The race, which begins July 2 and wraps on the 24, begins along the Le Passage de Gois ou G?a in northern France. The world renowned cycling race will be broadcast in nearly 200 countries and closely followed in real time on Twitter.
Read the rest and see the video at ?CBS News.
Gorgeous retro ?logos? for some of the world?s major cities. Very nice:?Albin Holmqvist for EF Destinations.
Seen @Brainpicker.
Source: http://francophilia.com/gazette/?p=6837
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