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PARIS: France's Michel Hazanavicius, whose silent film "The Artist" won the best film and best director Oscars last year, said France's insistence on protecting European cinema from Hollywood is justified.

HOLLYWOOD stars descended on a Chilterns village to shoot scenes for a new film, writes Sian Gordon.

June 14--At first glance, "Blancanieves" looks like a gimmick: It's a Spanish film based loosely on the story of Snow White, and it's photographed to resemble a black-and-white silent film from the earliest days of narrative cinema.

In a world awash with the influence of Hollywood, the French film and television industry is something of an exception.

The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union will meet on Friday to discuss proposed trade talks between the EU and the U.S. which could result in the removal of trade barriers between the world's two biggest economies.

A cloud is hanging over free trade discussions between the European Union and the United after France said it would veto any deal that includes the film, radio or TV industries.

The glamour of Hollywood comes to Rye in Sussex as upcoming George Clooney film 'The Monuments Men' is shot on location.

Celebrities gathered for an exclusive One Night Only party with Giorgio Armani on Wednesday night in Rome.

Clooney and Damon are filming scenes at the Imperial War Museum Duxford for World War II movie, The Monuments Men.

James Cromwell has one of the best-known faces in film and television and, at more than 2m tall, one of the most recognisable physiques.

Populaire, starring DA©borah FranA ois, BA©rA©nice Bejo, Romain Duris and a typewriter, is a 2013 French take on the Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1950s Link to video: Populaire: watch BA©rA©nice Bejo in a clip from the French comedy There was an old but not inaccurate joke that romantic movies from the Soviet Union ... (more)

Spanish director Pablo Berger's silent, black-and-white adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White, which swept Spain's Goya Awards and has attracted an enthusiastic following on the international festival circuit, is gorgeous enough to make you want to kiss the screen.

Locals in a Buckinghamshire village were left stunned on Thursday after they spotted Hollywood A-listers George Clooney and Matt Damon shooting their new movie.

Not since The Artist has there been a French film as delightful or commercial as Populaire.

Reflecting the move away from convention in the festival as a whole this year's Cannes jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, unanimously awarded the Palme d'Or to the French Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is The Warmest Colour.

Bejo, 36, who was catapulted to international stardom with the hit French silent movie "The Artist", plays a wife who asks her estranged husband to return from Iran to finalise their divorce.

French actress Berenice Bejo won the prize for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's film "The Past.'' Bejo, who made her name in the hit French silent movie "The Artist'', plays a wife who asks her estranged husband to return from Iran to finalise their divorce in the Paris-set family ... (more)

Abdellatif Kechiche's epic and explicit love story beats the Coen brothers into second place, while Bruce Dern wins out over Michael Douglas for best actor and Amat Escalante surprise victor for best director It was a fitting end to the week in which gay marriage was legalised in France; Abdellatif Kechiche's same-sex love story La Vie D'Adele ... (more)

EXCLUSIVE : As the Cannes Film Festival announces the winners of the fest's competing films, the big winner in the market portion of the festival is Harvey Weinstein, hands down.

When BA©rA©nice Bejo was young, her sister sat her down and told her: "BA©rA©nice, I love you.