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Jean-Claude Van Damme is the JCVD of the title, and in this career-adjusting film, the Muscles From Brussels advances from laughingstock to smart, respectable action-film star.

The full list of honorees for the Austin Circle of Theatres' annual theatre honors

The full list of honorees for the Austin Circle of Theatres' annual theatre honors

This French box-office sensation is a send-up of Sixties spy films.

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The latest titillation from French provocatrice Catherine Breillat is a period piece starring the ever-alluring Asia Argento.

Until its piffling ending, Frenchman Claude Lelouch delivers a film that's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box.

Lions Gate lionizes two icons – one French, one Italian – in two new collections

Maestro Peter Bay zeroed in on early 20th century France, and the results were magnificent

Armed Forces Entertainment's metal of honor, the Judy's reunite for the Austin Music Awards, Bobby Whitlock and CoCo Carmel's Double Fantasy

The second book starring Barcelona Police Inspector Petra Delicado

Neither a biopic of the artist nor a historical epic, Goya's Ghosts is a timeless study of the human potential for barbarism and hypocrisy.

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A young Frenchwoman moves to Paris from with nothing but the knapsack on her back and the innocent gleam in her eye.

North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.

Although made in 1969, this French masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville is receiving its first stateside release.

Balls to the walls, baby. This week in Fashion is balls to the walls.

Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler's troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe's back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you'll forgive him for making such a dark picture.

There's a sweet bent to this simple South African film about a multicultural group of employees at a Cape Town animal shelter who find both goodness and hope in their troubled lives.

In making its big move, the French New Wave was never about polarizing class, but that hasn't stopped some critics and contemporaries from all but labeling Claude Chabrol's work as bourgeois, processed, and better suited to the small screen

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Jean-Pierre on 'A Very Long Engagement'

If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?

The 11th Annual Austin Film Festival

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Two tiger cubs separated during infancy are cast to the winds of fate in French-occupied Indochina.

Jonathan Demme on 'The Agronomist'