When the 29th New Orleans French Film Festival begins to roll at the Prytania Theater Uptown this month, expect an eclectic array of narrative, documentary and animated features, not to mention six ...

IOWA CITY — With qualities that evade easy articulation, Iowa City’s newest French lounge is perhaps the best local example of je ne sais quoi. With a bar staff locally renowned for its cocktails, ...

I couldn’t stop blinking back tears, and I couldn’t understand why. I’d just walked out of a movie called “The Testament of Ann Lee.” Lee was the founder of the American Shakers, a tiny utopian ...

Description: Have you ever wondered what makes a croque monsieur so special? The smooth and creamy béchamel sauce that's generously spread on the bread is one of the main reasons. Instead of making it ...

Jazz has had its fair share of musical revolutionaries. Charlie Parker in the 1940s. Ornette Coleman in the late '50s and John Coltrane in the '60s. Erik Satie and Claude Debussy were revolutionaries ...

Gallic screen legends of a certain age have taken a hard right turn — just like France in general. By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors What’s up with reactionary old French screen legends?

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

A symbol of rebellious youth and beauty, Brigitte Bardot helped usher in the sexual revolution in the movies with her sensual, uninhibited performances in films like Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt.” Then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French actress and singer Brigitte Bardot is pictured during the filming of the French movie "Las Petroleras". Brigitte Bardot has ...

Brigitte Bardot, one of cinema’s most iconic sex symbols who quit the business to focus on activism, has died at age 91. “The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its ...

“And God Created Woman” made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare. Brigitte Bardot in 1965, when she was at the height of her movie ...

French producer Claude Berda, whose AB Groupe was one of the founding acquisitions of European media group Mediawan, has died at the age of 78 years old. Although Berda was little known outside of ...