Alain Delon

PARIS ( Reuters ) - French film and stage actor Alain Delon sold a thousand bottles of his wine collection on Saturday with a big Chinese buyer pushing the auction results well above pre-sale estimates. Delon, once called "the male Brigitte Bardot " for his good looks, is one of France 's best-selling film actors with Jean-Paul Belmondo and comic Louis de Funes . While he never made a big splash in Hollywood, he has fans in Europe and Asia . The sale raised more than 250,000 euros ($333,800...Read Full Story

We're back on the Bateau PBers, this time at the movies... Can you think of a better way to bone up on your French than watching streaming Fr movies on Netflix? Absolutement pas! Thanks for all the tips on riding the boat in Paris. Now I have to do it! Have you ever seen a French movie that didn't have at least ONE dinner soiree ? Non! Period film, Ridicule (1996-cast:Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fannie Ardent etc) is one of the best and totally au courant in content. As Fr Girl says, "At...Read Full Story

Corey (Alain Delon) in Le Cercle Rouge. Another round with a master By Ed Rampell One of the great things about film festivals is that screenings of classic movies can revive forgotten or overlooked pictures, and give audiences a second look at them. It’s sort of like discovering a long, lost relative, and the AFI Film Festival  is no exception to this revival tradition. Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar  selected and introduced one of his personal favorites, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le...Read Full Story

Monica Vitti and Alain Delon in The Eclipse. Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon in - The Girl on a Motorcycle. Senta Berger and Alain Delon in-Diaboliquement vôtre-1967. Alain Delon and Jane Fonda in - Les Felins /Joy House - 1964. Marie Laforet and Alain Delon in - Purple Noon – 1969. Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale in -Il Gattopardo - 1962. Alain Delon & Catherine Deneuve. Alain Delon & Barbara Alain Delon & Anne Parillaud. Alain Delon and Anne Magret. Jane Birkin & Alain Delon. Alain...Read Full Story

Editor's note: This week's guest contributor is a writer familiar to many fans of French film noir. Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London and the author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris (London: BFI, 2003). She has provided filmed and audio commentaries for DVDs of a number of Melville films for BFI, Criterion and Masters of Cinema. *** The essence of Franco-American noir By Ginette Vincendeau Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) directed thirteen...Read Full Story

The Leopard (The Criterion Collection) Luchino Visconti (Actor) , Burt Lancaster (Actor)   |   Format: DVD (110) 29 used & new from $21.00 (Visit the Bestsellers in Art House & International list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description Making its long-awaited U.S. home video debut, Luchino Visconti's The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years when the...Read Full Story

The Leopard (The Criterion Collection) Burt Lancaster (Actor) , Claudia Cardinale (Actor) , Luchino Visconti (Director)   |   Format: DVD (110) Buy new: $35.00 24 used & new from $28.51 (Visit the Bestsellers in Foreign Films list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description An epic on the grandest scale, Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il gattopardo) re-creates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy’s Risorgimento, when the...Read Full Story

The Leopard: The Criterion Collection Luchino Visconti (Actor) , Burt Lancaster (Actor)   |   Format: DVD (108) 30 used & new from $26.90 (Visit the Most Gifted in Art House & International list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description Making its long-awaited U.S. home video debut, Luchino Visconti's The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years when the...Read Full Story

They met on the set of "Christine" (1958), felt in love and she moved with him to Paris.Schneider became engaged to  Delon  in 1959. They never got married though, they were always delaying it. Delon broke up with her in 1964, breaking her heart(some say). They continued starring in films together, like La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) (1968).they were engaged once, which made perfect sense cause they seemed so confortable with each other in the movie, and they had such intimacy...that could...Read Full Story

Rosalie   van Breemen   ( 43) .   The   Dutch   former   model   was 15   years , the   great   love of   film   legend   Alain   Delon   ( 74) .   Was   never   married ,   but   together they   have   daughter   Anouchka   ( 20)   and   Alain - Fabien   ( 16) . Rosalie   has a   house in   Kampen ,   where   she   spends   the   summer   - and   she 's   fallen in love :   In the   VIP club   " Pony "   was   the   ex - model   with the   CD   release party   of   " Pony   Club   Kampen...Read Full Story