French Literature and Film

Chrétien de Troyes

Biographical elements:
http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/arthuriana2z/c.htm#CHRE
On Chrétien’s place in the Arthurian lore: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/legendliterature1.html
Timeless myths: Perceval’s tradition:
http://www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/quest1.html
On the Holy Grail:
http://www.britannia.com/history/arthur/grail.html

Eric Rohmer

Details and comments about the film, Perceval le Gallois:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078073/
Profile, by Tamara Trcz:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/rohmer.html
Interview with Eric Rohmer, by Aurélien Ferenzi:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/16/rohmer.html

Jean Cocteau

Profile by Richard Misek:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/cocteau.html
Article by Kin Humphreville:
http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/C/La_Belle_et_la_Bete_780.html
On La Princesse de Clèves:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054208/
On La Belle et la Bête:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/
http://www.info-france-usa.org/culture/cinema/releases/cocteau/belle.html

Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont

http://www.oberlin.edu/english/syllabi/spring01/Gorfain/369/BeBeast.html

Choderlos de Laclos

The Literary Encyclopedia:
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2588
Brigitte Humbert's dissertation: Du roman epistolaire au film: Le transfert du role de la lettre dans les adaptations des 'Liaisons Dangereuses':
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9538633/

Stephen Frears

Washington Post article by Hal Hinson on Frears's Dangerous Liaisons:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/dangerousliaisonsrhinson_a0a8d4.htm

Roger Vadim

Biography an filmography:
http://www.answers.com/topic/roger-vadim
New York Times article by Caryn James:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E7DF153AF935A15752C1A96F948260&sec=&pagewanted=print
On Vadim's Liaisons dangereuses:
http://www.mondo-digital.com/barbarella.html
The Decorous Libertine, by Charles Taylor:
http://www.mondo-digital.com/barbarella.html

Milos Forman

New York Times article by Janet Maslin:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DB173DF934A25752C1A96F948260
Details and review of Valmont:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098575/
Review of Valmont by Edwin Jahiel:
http://www.prairienet.org/ejahiel/valmont.htm

Roger Kumble

When Pop Culture Meets High Literature. The case of Cruel Intentions and the epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Betty Kaklamanidou:
http://www.offscreen.com/biblio/essays/cruel_intentions/

Flaubert

Flaubert: Biography in The Literature Network.
http://www.online-literature.com/gustave-flaubert/
Reviews.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/flaubert/mbovary.htm
Madame Bovary.
http://www.madamebovary.com/default.htm

Vincente Minnelli

"Images of Magic and Transformation," by Joe McElhaney.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/minnelli.html
Madame Bovary
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041615/

Claude Chabrol

Senses of Cinema.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/chabrol.html
Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1042062-madame_bovary/

Alain Resnais

Strictly Film School.
http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/resnais.html
The Stream of Consciousness in the Films of Alain Resnais, by HAIM CALLEV.
http://www.tau.ac.il/~haim/s-chaptr.htm
Interview.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_11_29/ai_57590217

Marguerite Duras

Label France.
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/LETTRES/DURAS/duras.html
Women's History.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/ucbio_duras_margaret.htm

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Interview. My Village.com.
http://www.myvillage.com/pages/celebs-jean-jacques-annaud.htm
Site Jean-Jacques Annaud.
http://www.jjannaud.com/