The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, recounts an unprecedented moment in the life of a personality, behind the scenes of an event or a place belonging to collective history. Reports that reveal the small story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 4 of “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” go on the Croisette, with “made in Hollywood” stars…
The day when > Jodie Foster discovers Cannes and Paris
In May 1976, 13-year-old Jodie Foster walked the Cannes Film Festival red carpet for the first time for her role in Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese. France discovers dumbfounded this gifted young actress, of an astonishing maturity, and who expresses herself in perfect French. The actress is delighted to discover the Croisette, but what she really wants is to live a few months in Paris, like the characters in the films of the New Wave, Truffaut, or Godard, who rocked her childhood. She will then put her suitcases there, the time of a year. Between skateboarding on Place du Trocadéro and ice cream on Île Saint-Louis, she will find the time to shoot a film and even record an album… in French. “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” looks back on the American prodigy and her enchanted parenthesis in Paris…
And also, a legendary pilot, a journalist who loved cinema…
News > The crazy story of “Top Gun”
Tom Cruise ruffled the Croisette on Wednesday May 18 with a climb of the steps accompanied by Patrouille de France fighter jets, before the out-of-competition screening of Top Gun: Maverick. Nothing is too good for the return of Top Gun, the film seen and reviewed by millions of spectators since 1986, which has become cult for several generations. However, nothing predestined this film to such a success. The script was rather thin, Tom Cruise didn’t want it, and the American army had a lot of cold sweats when they saw a slightly eccentric film crew arrive on their base…
Bonuses > Confidence of stars
Tribute to a journalist interviewer who took up residence in Cannes at each Festival… François Chalais loved cinema and its heroes. Some excerpts from meetings for fun…
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– Jodie Foster, childhoodby Buddy Foster and Leon Wagener (ed. Claude Lefrancq).
– Jodie Fosterby Frédéric Valmont (ed. Carpentier).
– Dear Jodieby Clovis Goux (ed. Stock).
– Box office: Don Simpson and the Hollywood culture of excessby Charles Fleming (ed. Sonatine).
– Top Gun (Première Classics n°19: April-May-June 2022).
– Program “Reflets de Cannes”, François Chalais.
– Cinepanorama program, François Chalais.
Non-exhaustive list.
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