Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko (i) on August 23, 2000 at 13:28:47:

This is a quote from the The Times article on this summer film battle. Very interesting.....

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US films leave art crowd reeling

FROM CHARLES BREMNER IN PARIS

French prefer the American Gladiator

FRANCE'S pampered film-makers are licking their wounds after the Hollywood bulldozer demolished a summertime campaign to flood cinema with new Gallic releases and break the stranglehold of American blockbusters.

A rush to Gladiator, Mission Impossible 2 and a few other American productions has inflicted humiliation on most of the 20 new native movies that were launched with fanfare into a holiday season that is usually left to what French cinéphiles call the American supermarket flicks.

"After eight weeks, the battlefield is strewn with corpses," le Parisien said yesterday. Only one film - Destinées Sentimentales is expected to survive the season.

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Please read the rest of the story on http://www.the-times.co.uk/

(I am not sure if it would be OK to copy it here).