EntertainmentThe director and the actor have worked together in three films in Malayalam, including ‘Kerala Cafe’ and ‘Bangalore Days’.Digital NativeAnjali Menon and Nithya MenenIt was a fitting tribute for Nithya Menen on her birthday. On her special day, the actor received praises from director Anjali Menon and it was there for everyone to read. Filmmaker Anjali Menon, on Nithya Menen’s birthday on April 8th, wrote on Instagram: “Whenever I have worked with Nithya Menen, I have this problem of not being able to call cut when she is in my frame! This birthday I wish you the best frames that reveal the outrageous spunk and talent you have always had, way before it became fashionable.” Anjali Menon and Nithya have worked together in Ustad Hotel (which was scripted by Anjali) and Kerala Café, an anthology film in which she played the lead role in the segment titled Happy Journey,...
- 4/12/2020
- by Cris
- The News Minute
PARIS -- French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel died Thursday in Paris after a long illness. He was 74.
"I honor the memory of a man who, with a subtle and ironic sophistication, left a unique imprint on the history of cinema, theater and television," Veronique Cayla, head of French national film body the CNC, said in a statement Friday.
Cassel got his break when he was discovered by Gene Kelly, who cast him in The Happy Road in 1957, and subsequently rose to fame starring in film comedies in the 1960s.
He went on to work with such major directors as Robert Altman, Luis Bunuel, Jean Renoir, Sidney Lumet, Claude Chabrol and Richard Attenborough.
The actor starred in more than 110 movies during his career and earned the onscreen affections of Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Stephane Audran and Marie Dubois among others. Cassel, who once cited Fred Astaire as a source of inspiration, was famous for his role as the ungainly King Louis XIII in Richard Lester's pair of early 1970s films The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.
His latest roles include Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," In Competition at May's Festival de Cannes, in addition to the soon-to-be-released animated movie Asterix at the Olympic Games.
Cassel is survived by his three children, including son Vincent, who also has made a big name for himself stateside with roles in the recent Ocean's Twelve and Derailed.
Father and son were set to star in Jean-Francois Richet's two-film project about infamous gangster Jacques Mesrine -- Death Instinct and Public Enemy No. 1...
"I honor the memory of a man who, with a subtle and ironic sophistication, left a unique imprint on the history of cinema, theater and television," Veronique Cayla, head of French national film body the CNC, said in a statement Friday.
Cassel got his break when he was discovered by Gene Kelly, who cast him in The Happy Road in 1957, and subsequently rose to fame starring in film comedies in the 1960s.
He went on to work with such major directors as Robert Altman, Luis Bunuel, Jean Renoir, Sidney Lumet, Claude Chabrol and Richard Attenborough.
The actor starred in more than 110 movies during his career and earned the onscreen affections of Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Stephane Audran and Marie Dubois among others. Cassel, who once cited Fred Astaire as a source of inspiration, was famous for his role as the ungainly King Louis XIII in Richard Lester's pair of early 1970s films The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.
His latest roles include Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," In Competition at May's Festival de Cannes, in addition to the soon-to-be-released animated movie Asterix at the Olympic Games.
Cassel is survived by his three children, including son Vincent, who also has made a big name for himself stateside with roles in the recent Ocean's Twelve and Derailed.
Father and son were set to star in Jean-Francois Richet's two-film project about infamous gangster Jacques Mesrine -- Death Instinct and Public Enemy No. 1...
- 4/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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