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A Filmmaker in Spite of Himself

Quillette 28 Aug 2024
The playwright and filmmaker Sacha Guitry (1885–1957) remains little known outside France ... I made the acquaintance of Sacha Guitry, whom I found very pleasant ... Alexandre “Sacha” Guitry was born in St Petersburg on 21 February 1885.
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A reckoning for the Parisian elite

New Statesman 19 Jun 2024
There is something about Paris that brings out the would-be anthropologist in foreign writers ...France is a paradise inhabited by people who think they’re in hell.” And there is no better motto for Paris than this from the film director Sacha Guitry.
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Simon Callow: I wasted an evening watching Oppenheimer

The Times/The Sunday Times 05 Mar 2024
My favourite film ... I wasted an evening watching …. Oppenheimer.Sponsored. • Christopher Nolan ... Deburau by Sacha Guitry about the illness, recovery and then demise of the great mime depicted by Jean-Louis Barrault in Les Enfants du Paradis ... Wrong ... Jim Kerr.
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Micheline Presle, French movie star

Union Leader 24 Feb 2024
She appeared as the royal Hortense de Beauharnais in “Napoléon” (1955), director Sacha Guitry’s historical epic; played a magazine editor in the comedy “Her Bridal Night” (1956), an early showcase for ...
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Publishers Prosper and Martine Assouline Talk About Their Favorite Books and More

Market Watch 03 Jan 2024
Coffee table book fans who appreciate tomes that they can collect and display are likely familiar with the Assouline name ... The imprint continues to grow its list each year ... The Impossible Collection, and Louis Vuitton ... Sacha Guitry, a French playwright.
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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Napoleon’ is Sony’s widest release ever; Disney has a ‘Wish’; ‘The Eternal Daughter’, ‘Girl’ among UK indies

Screen Daily 24 Nov 2023
A silent film about his early years was made in 1927, and ran to a reported 330 minutes; while Sacha Guitry directed a 1955 version in which the lead was played by Daniel Gelin as a young man, and Raymond Pellegrin at an older age ... Independent titles.
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Obsession, jealousies and Joséphine: has Ridley Scott’s new film captured the real Napoleon?

The Observer 12 Nov 2023
By making a film on Napoleon, Scott is, of course, making his own bid for greatness ... Other powerful films on Napoleon were made by the Franco-Russian Sacha Guitry and the Ukrainian-Russian Sergei Bondarchuk ... Photograph. Aidan Monaghan/Apple TV+ ... .
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Why Napoleon Still Has Star Power

Live Mint 09 Nov 2023
Abel Gance’s epic of 1927 and Sacha Guitry’s of 1955, both titled “Napoleon.” Others have bombed, including Sergei Bondarchuk’s massively expensive 1970Waterloo” (which used thousands of Soviet ...
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Klassik:Gro�es Am�sement

Sued Deutsche 16 Oct 2023
... ihres Brieffreunds kommt, zieht Hahn auf ein Libretto von Sacha Guitry alle Register komischen Komponierens.
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After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

The Guardian 20 Sep 2023
Oliver Cotton’s The Score, dealing with Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II at Potsdam in 1747, opens at the Theatre Royal Bath in October and stars Brian Cox ... Sacha Guitry’s Mozart, with Yvonne Printemps as the hero, played in London in 1926 ... ....
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Happenings — what’s coming up in Northeast Ohio starting June 2

The Willoughby News-Herald 31 May 2023
Here is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio ... Art. Beck Center for the Arts ... July 28) ... 10 ... Ford ... 6 ... June 3; “The Story of a Cheat” (aka “Confessions of a Cheat,” “Le Roman D’un Tricheur,” France, 1936, Sacha Guitry), 5 p.m.
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Why does no one dress for dinner at Claridge’s any more?

The Spectator 22 Apr 2023
Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89 ... It is certainly what I am striving to do ... My Sacha Guitry movies, bought in Paris, have to stay, but my much-played series of films starring Chucky, the malevolent doll, may have to be deaccessioned ... SUBSCRIBE.
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Michel Boujenah met ses "Magnifiques" à la retraite information fournie par AFP•18/02/2023 à 08:12

Boursorama 18 Feb 2023
Michel BoujenahParis, le 20 f�vrier 2019 ( POOL / Ludovic MARIN ) ... Apr�s les adieux � mes +Magnifiques+, je vais jouer +Debureau+, une des pi�ces en vers de Sacha Guitry qui raconte l'histoire d'un acteur c�l�bre courtis� par ses admiratrices ... ....
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M Degas Steps Out: An Essay by Philip Hoy review – an artistic encounter across a century

The Observer 29 Jan 2023
Early in the first world war, the actor and playwright Sacha Guitry put together a short propaganda film showcasing leading figures in French culture ... Guitry was obliged to film him surreptitiously.

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