Francoise Bonnot, a film editor who won an Oscar for Z and a BAFTA Award for Missing among dozens of credits, died Saturday in Paris. She was 78. The France native worked with a number of top directors during her nearly 50-year career, notably editing seven consecutive films by Costa-Gavras — from 1969’s Z to 1983’s Ha…

Film director Roman Polanski plans to attend a Paris retrospective on his work tomorrow, and protestors will be there to greet him. French feminist organization Osez le féminisme has organized a petition against Polanski’s appearance, and now plans a demonstration outside the Cinémathèque Francaise when the event…

Pierre Lescure Named Honorary President of Dijon Film Meetings Former Canal Plus president Pierre Lescure has been named the honorary president of the annual Rencontres Cinématographiques de Dijon, set to take place next month in the French town. The executive, who was co-director general of Vivendi Universal…

The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union will meet Friday to discuss proposed trade talks between the EU and the U.S. which could result in the removal of trade barriers between the world's two biggest economies. A negotiation mandate is expected to emerge from the meeting, but 7,000 European and…

An esteemed party, led by Costa Gavras, Michel Hazanavicius and The Weinstein Company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, crashed a parlay at the Palais on “Strengthening The Cultural Exception In Tomorrow’s Europe”, where MPAA head Chris Dodd was among the policy-maker panelists today. Weinstein spoke on an issue that…