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Showing posts with label French. Show all posts

25 May 2012

Veuillez m'aider svp?


Fans francais de Marlene Dietrich, je voudrais regarder l'emission, Le crepuscule d'un ange, mais je ne peux pas trouver aucun lien sur le net avec le documentaire entier. Il y a seulement cette bande-annonce qui est disponible, non? Le documentaire sera diffuse encore une fois ce dimanche a 7h55 sur France 5. Je vous prie de m'aider et de m'excuser pour mes erreurs linguistiques. Quel dommage que j'habite dans un pays ou la Dietrich n'est pas bien appreciee

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French Dietrich fans, I'd like to watch the program, Le crepuscule d'un ange, but the entire clip doesn't appear available online. All I can find is a little teaser! I know the documentary will air again this Sunday at 7:55 on France 5, but I'm not mad enough to fly to France just to watch it then. Please help me watch it. Please, please, please!

EDIT: Someone very kind (Fabrice from the Marlene Dietrich Collection blog?) had already sent us an email with such a link at Pluzz.fr, which I initially missed because it went to our spam folder. Sadly, I can't watch this video because I am in the United States. Now, I need help with proxy servers! Argh!

EDIT AGAIN: Yay! Saw it!

15 September 2011

French Radio's Marlene Tribute


In August, France Culture broadcast a series of five programmes dedicated to Dietrich.

Subjects include Marlene's love life, her role as muse and the Dietrich-Sternberg collaborations. Archive interviews with Marlene are used, as well as new interviews with Silke Ronneburg and Werner Sudendorf (from the Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin), Jean-Jacques Debout (whose songs Marlene recorded), Marlene's friend Louis Bozon and her grandson Peter Riva.

You can listen to the programmes on France Culture's site. The programmes are in French.

18 January 2007

'60s French interview sound clips!


Last week, a friend of mine directed me to a page featuring Marlene Dietrich interview extracts (in French), in which she expresses her views and advice regarding love, relationships, and the value of beauty. Those of my generation will undoubtedly react to how Dietrich deduces the differences between men and women. I will allow you to judge these clips yourself, which you will find here.

NOTE: I have plans to see Soderbergh's The Good German, which critics have relentlessly compared to A Foreign Affair. As one would expect, the critics connect few specific links between the two films. Critics are also comparing Cate Blanchett's character to Dietrich, although they are also name-dropping Greta Garbo and any other old actress with a European accent. When I see the film myself, I will certainly report my own perspective. At the moment, I have reservations. Cate Blanchett herself cautiously notes in interviews that "Marlene Dietrich channels Marlene Dietrich" (how astute!) and lists other actresses who have inspired her. Additionally, her dowdy brunette look doesn't quite channel Dietrich, unless you're watching Golden Earrings on stolen cable.