"After eight weeks, the battlefield is strewn with corpses," ...

Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

216.158.42.31

This is a quote from the The Times article on this summer film battle. Very interesting.....
****************************************************
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 cinÃ©philes call the American supermarket flicks.
"After eight weeks, the battlefield is strewn with corpses," le Parisien said yesterday. Only one film - DestinÃ©es Sentimentales is expected to survive the season.
***********************************************
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).

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

Kimber Kable

Topic - "After eight weeks, the battlefield is strewn with corpses," ... - Victor Khomenko 13:28:47 08/23/00 (3)

Re: "After eight weeks, the battlefield is strewn with corpses," ... - TAFKA Steve 20:28:01 08/24/00 (0)

so has DestinÃ©es Sentimentales been released here (US)? - Ran 16:06:36 08/24/00 (0)

Re: "After eight weeks, the battlefield is strewn with corpses," ... - Jeff Starrs 00:33:45 08/24/00 (0)

You can not post to an archived thread.