I've taken out a subscription to the Cinemoi French film channel that is on cable and Sky in the UK, which looks pretty promising.
Obviously there is a tremendous amount of French cinema being shown, many of which passed me by on their initial release, as well as a lot of classics as well.
Highlights so far? Probably L'armée du crime, although Immortal, Arsene Lupin and Fair Play were all pretty excellent.
Looking forward to getting to see more of this kind of thing. Normally you would have to be watching the programme of cinemas like the GFT pretty closely, spend several days watching movies non-stop during the French Film Festival or have deep pockets at the 'World Cinema' section of HMV (not that they actually have that much) to get to see this kind of cinema.
Also looking forward to see some of the old films that they've been screening. Les Diaboliques is on the menu in the next few days, as is The Wages of Fear. Again, it saves tracking down DVDs.
However, one interesting thing that they are also doing is showing some French music videos between films. OK, so I have only seen a couple so far, both pretty obvious - Vanessa Paradis and Phoenix - but its a great start and hopefully a platform for more French acts to get the exposure in the UK that they don't get elsewhere.
So today's video is one by Phoenix, giving us the excuse to finally use something by one of the biggest French acts around.
PHOENIX - Lisztomania
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