Newsletter n°213 / March Special

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Cinema

35th César Award - The Winners

Jacques Audiard's A Prophet scoops nine Cesar at the 35th César Award Night including,Best film, Best, Actor, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor. Isabelle Adjani wins her 5th César for Best Actress. She won her first César in 1982 for her role in Possession.

Father of my children

In cinemas now

Cannes Film Festival 2009 – Special Prize Un Certain Regard. Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema-free and true-to-life is precisely his reason for living, his vocation. It fulfils him and Grégoire devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops, except at weekends...

Johnny Mad Dog out on DVD on 15th March

Out on 15th March

Directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and produced by acclaimed French actor Mathieu Kassovitz (Amelie, Munich), JOHNNY MAD DOG features former child soldiers and victims of civil war from Liberia in central roles in what is a genuinely unforgettable and truly unforgiving look at the reality of how civil war affects the children who sit at both ends of the gun barrel.

3 DVDs of Johnny Mad Dog to be won

DJ Laurent Wolf at Chinawhite

Tuesday 9th March 2010 from 10pm

French DJ Laurent Wolf is now a bit of a legend; voted 'Best DJ' in the world at the World Music Awards and working with the likes of Madonna and Beyonce, his reputation is now made. Don't miss him next week at Chinawhite.

2 pairs of tickets to be won for his gig on 9th March.

Alice Anderson's Time Reversal at the Riflemaker in Soho

Until 24th April 2010.

This French artist who graduated from both the Paris Beaux-Arts and Goldsmiths in London is now exhibiting some of her work based on her troubled family relationships at Riflemaker in Soho. Two of the exhibits are made with hundreds of meters of striking red doll's hair and she is also showing her latest film, 'The Night I Became a Doll. Alice works from her Battersea studio.