Category: French

Golden Globe Nominations are in!

December 13, 2007

GG nods were announced this morning, see complete list here.

Marion Cotillard got a nod, WOOO for Best Actress Comedy/Musical – WOOOOOOO. Allez, allez, Marion! x’D Julie Chrisie for Away from Her got a nod for Best Actress Drama, so there won’t be any competition there, haha…

Also nominated WOOO are Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd, Ryan Gosling for Lars and the Real Girl, Ellen Page for Juno, Amy Adams for Enchanted… Juno got a nod in the Screenplay category, and Best Picture… Sweeney Todd got a Best Picture (Comedy/Musical), and some Best Foreign nods go to Persepolis (!!), The Kite Runner and Lust, Caution…
Film Listing 2007 Update~

December 10, 2007
Follow up to this post~

This is the current list:
- Across the Universe (2007)
- The Other Boleyn Girl (Hopefully 2007)
- Goya’s Ghost (2007?)
- My Blueberry Nights (2007?)
- The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
- I’m a Cyborg, but it’s OK (2007???)
- Martian Child (Oct 26, 2007)
- The Savages (Sept. 7, 2007)
- Fido (Jun. 15th)
- Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (Jun. 1st)
- Becoming Jane (Aug. 3)
- Rocket Science (Aug. 10)
- Margot at the Wedding (Oct. 19)
- Paprika (out now)
Adding these titles…
- Persepolis
- No Country for Old Men
- Juno
- Gone Baby Gone
- Lars and the Real Girl
- El Orfanato
Been meaning to update my list for a long while…
Currently Playing…

December 9, 2007
Currently playing Darren Hayes with On the Verge of Something Wonderful.

On my most recent iTunes library, are:
- Akira Mitake
- Amel Bent
- Backstreet Boys
- Celtic Woman
- Christophe Mae
- Christophe Willem
- Chromeo
- Eberg
- Five for Fighting
- Juanes
- Justice
- Kent
- Los Campesinos!
- Maria Mena
- Radiohead
- Rajaton
- St. Vincent
- Tegan and Sara
- Vanessa Paradis
- Westlife
This is a follow-up of these posts:

Loads of Music

P2P, Torrents, Legal Downloads, Oh My!
Best 2007 Songs + Bonus Best 2006 Songs

December 7, 2007
I did a 2006 Best Songs List from the music I had been listening to on my iPod, Internet, or even CD… no radio for me. – so I thought I’d post this year’s also. In no particular order:

BEST 2007 SONGS
- Antigone – Funky Dancers
- Tegan and Sara – The Con
- Green Light Go – E Ha’i Ana Wau
- Shitdisco – OK
- Quad Riot – Johnny Negro
- Operator Please – Just a Song about Ping Pong
- Michael Buble – Everything
- Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
- Justice – D.A.N.C.E
- Juanes Feat. Campinos – Bandera de Manos
- Christophe Mae – Spleen
- Backstreet Boys – Trouble Is
- Hanson – Been There Before
- Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankolov – Water
- Ayaka & Kobukuro – WINDING ROAD
Uber SPECIAL mention for Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova for the Soundtrack of the film Once. Including all the album in this list xD
BEST 2006 SONGS
- Dixie Chicks – Ready to Make Nice
- Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Record On
- KT Tunstall – Black Horse & the Cherry Tree
- The Raconteurs – Steady as She Goes
- Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Phenomena
- Keith Urban – Once in a Lifetime
- Rascal Flatts – What Hurts the Most
- CSS – Lets Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
- The Sounds – Night After Night
- Sunset Rubdown – They Took a Vote and Said No
Emmanuelle Seigner, Carly Pope?

December 1, 2007

Quick write up. Wow! It’s December already! I just read Marion Cotillard has been nominated for Best Actress at the Satellite awards, and Emmanuelle Seigner who co-starred with her as Titine has been nominated as Supporting Actress…

Emmanuelle Seigner looks like an older version of Carly Pope, non?

*EDIT*

IMDb changed it’s image gallery, and photos are gone. Plus, I don’t think they liked me linking to their files~ Here are some photos, though I couldn’t find the same pictures I previously showed.
For Your Consideration: Marion Cotillard for Best Actress

November 17, 2007

Oh, yeah. Amy first saw La Môme, aka La Vie en Rose, back in her trip to Sweden with dear Julyssa. Movie was in French, with Swedish subtitles… Amy speaks neither. LOL’ – so you can imagine. Anyway, that was a sweet little anecdote with the film, but I just got my DVD today, and re-watched it with proper subtitling that I could understood. ^^ xD

Ever since I saw Cotillard in this role, I’ve felt that she’s got Academy Award written all over her face… I mean, come on! She became Piaf!! She, at least! deserves a nomination for Best Actress. Coming award season, she will need a strong campaign so people don’t push her performance to the back of their heads coming the time of nominations… so Amy decides to campaign for her.

The film came out in the first half of the year, and just recently became available on DVD… usually, studios will release heavy awarded films during November and December to stay fresh in the mind of the ones nominating… this is not the case. Most importantly, the film is in French… it’s a powerful performance yes, but apparently languages are a pretty quite no-no for Academy Awards, lol.

I also found this blog with how the race to the Oscar is going… good read. This person mentions Cotillard, and also another fave of mine, Julie Christie for Away from Her.

But to stay on topic, Amy is campaigning for Marion Cotillard. I first saw her,briefly, on the Tim Burton film Big Fish back in early 2000s – Then, I got the amazing chance to see Jeux d’Enfants (aka. Love Me If You Dare) at the cinemas in Vancouver… which is now one of my favorite films, and then she was on The Good Year, starring Russel Crowe. Marion Cotillard does great in this film, she becomes Piaf and gives her audience a powerful wonderful performance.

You can find, use, and help campaigning by posting and using this banners I made. For Your Consideration: Marion Cotillard for Best Actress.
In the mighty search for “Mon Paradis”

October 12, 2007
I just discovered Christophe Maé’s music – how cool is his album, Mon Paradis… searching for a less pricey copy of it through amazon ::crosses fingers::

Love singing along to it hahaha… though I do not understand most of it, xD … for sure I’ll be adding a new French category. I’ll be recollecting the albums lyrics because they are all scattered around the web. This is the tracklisting:
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I’m a Maniac, Maniac!

August 27, 2007

… of languages!

Ok, here’s my story. Japanese is pretty awesome, but let’s get real. Any Asian language that I will ever try to learn, will eventually come to a sudden halt with the different writing… (more…)
2007 Films I wanna see (recap)

August 14, 2007

Head back to this post here for the original post!

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Found the Silver Sea!

August 13, 2007
I have finally found the Silver Sea album by Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, after extensive searching and waiting. I will share for a limited time only, if you’re interested, be sure to leave a message in this post.

The album has 13 songs of pretty awesome vocals. Meav’s got one of the most delightful voices I’ve heard in a long time, it really is a pleasure to just listen to her. Many of the tracks are slow to mid-tempo songs that really showcase her vocals, but most of my favorite ones are beat-driven tracks like The Wicked Sister, and The Dark-Haired Girl.

Some other highlights are Morning in Béarra – that, if I’m not mistaken, sounds like She Moved Thru the Fair, – A Maid in Bedlam, and Youkali Tango – a sexy-sounding Tango in French. Song lyrics and translations found at LyricsMagnet.com. Here’s the tracklist:
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