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The History of French Cinema: 1987 |
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18/1 - |
Isabella Adjani appears in an interview on the Channel Two news to quash rumours that she is dying of Aids. [ADD] |
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French-Canadian director Denys Arcand’s fifth fiction picture, Le Declin de l'empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire), is released. [ADD] |
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25/3 - |
Jean-Loup Hubert’s Le Grande chemin, starring Anémone and Richard Bohringer, is released. [ADD] |
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19/5 - |
Maurice Pialat is booed by a section of the audience at the Cannes Film Festival when he goes on stage to collect the Golden Palm for his film Sous le soleil de Satan (Under Satan's Sun). James Ivory’s Maurice and Ermanno Olmi's Lunga vita alla signora (Long Live the Lady!) share the Silver Lion. [ADD] |
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Jean Rouch replaces Costa-Gavras as the president of the Cinematheque francaise. [ADD] |
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18/6 - |
Brigitte Bardot stages an auction of her dresses, guitar, make-up case and other property to raise money for her charity for the prevention of cruelty to animals. [ADD] |
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7/10 - |
Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants, based in a boy’s boarding school in France during the Nazi occupation, is released. [ADD] |
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31/12 - |
A survey reports that the number of cinemas in France has fallen by 346 in the past year to a total of 4,808. [ADD] |
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Other Key French Films of 1987 |
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4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer) [ADD] |
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Masques (Claude Chabrol) [ADD] |
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Poussiere d’ange (Edouard Niermans) [ADD] |
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Kung Fu Master (Agnes Varda) [ADD] |
