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I love Hollywood’s Golden Age, I have wrote several times about this magic era: Scarface: first and second impact, Davis, Flynn, Dietrich… They did it their way, About the Warner Bros and the Roosevelt Administration and I even shared with you: A few pages of my movie script / book, for your eyes only!. The silent movies, the rise of talkies, the life in Hollywoodland… Hollywood’s Golden Age, from the late 1920′s to the mid-1930′s is my favorite movie decade. So when I heard about the movie director Michel Hazanavicius was about to make, needless to say I was very excited about it. The Artist, shot at the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, takes place between 1927 and 1932 in Hollywood: as silent movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller (Bérénice Béjo), a…⇒ READ MORE

It’s about being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’. Support of #Ai Weiwei makes #China “unhappy”. Reported by Yahoo News, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said: ‘The Chinese people also feel baffled — why do some people in some countries treat a crime suspect as a hero? [...] The Chinese people are unhappy about this. No matter what influence they have had, they will be punished according to the law.’ China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Fu Ying added: ‘There are rules and laws in China that need to be applied just like here, and individuals, maybe they are your friends, maybe they agree with you more than others, but that should not make (them) … above the law [...] It is very condescending for the Europeans to come in to tell China that some people are beyond the law‘. Support of dictators and blindingly dealing with them make me very unhappy. No need…⇒ READ MORE

Last year I published an extract on my first bookand I was very touched by the many supporting feedbacks I received about it. During the past 2 months, I have been hard at work writing a movie script which action takes place in the mid-1930s, during the Golden Age of Hollywood. It is not a movie script anymore since I entirely rewrote it, adding so many details they could only fit in a book (although I hope it will become a movie). A promise is a promise and I am keeping my word, so I will give you an access to a few pages of this -new- book. Same process as last year: all registered regulars will receive within the hour an email containing a link, providing access to a hidden page on this blog. A restricted access for members only and for a limited time. The link will be…⇒ READ MORE

As you may already know, I am a huge fan of Hollywood’s Golden Age, movies from the 1930′s and the 1940′s, and also film noir. For the French reading this blog who want to see some very good movies made by the Warner Brothers during the Great Depression, don’t miss the Cinéma de Minuit on French channel television France3. A movie is aired each Saturday night, in original English version with English subtitles. Gold Diggers of 1933, Wild Boys of The Road, Confessions of a Nazi Spy and Juarez have already aired but Casablanca (one of my favorite movies), Mission to Moscow, Hitler Lives (short movie) and To Have and Have Not will air within the next weeks. This ‘Cycle‘ is about the Warner Bros and the Roosevelt Administration, and it shows how the studio (under the leadership of Harry Warner) re-defined the American film industry as a cultural medium….⇒ READ MORE

The period between Great Depression and World War II is remembered as Hollywood’s Golden Age, from the 1920′s to the late 1940′s with introduction of television. I’m a huge fan of the 1930s to 1940s movie decade, when Bette Davis was Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage (1934), her fights with Jack Warner and the Hollywood Canteen with Cary Grant. Errol Flynn was Peter Blood in his first starring role in Captain Blood(1935), he came to Europe to write about Spanish Civil War and had a controversy friendship with Nazi Herman Erben. Then he was a supporter of the Cuban Revolution and he was a well known womanizer. Marlene Dietrich was Amy Jolly in her first American film, Morocco (1930) with Gary Cooper. She was a fashion icon and she was openly bisexual (remember the kiss Lola Lola gives to another woman in Blue Angel?). During World War II she…⇒ READ MORE