UPDATE: there have been 50+ comments, and some of them even look like entries. Plenty of time to respond - see below - but the present shortlist, in no special order, is: Louise; Bill Taylor; Will Buckley; Pete Sixsmith; Roads of Stone. Jury is out on one or two others...
So here's the prize. It is available three times over. All it requires is for there to be three deserving winners between now and midnight on March 26 2009, my last full day in the UAE.
The scene was set in Le Comeback and Salut!'s 200,000th hit and it is to there that readers should return in order to post comments intended as entries. Comments may not be left here. Follow this link instead.
Salut! is very grateful to the publishers Continuum for entering into the spirit of these modest celebrations by offering three copies of the following title:
French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present
Author : Rémi Fournier Lanzoni
Published: April 2004
Description, from the Continuum website:
To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the silent era, Surrealist influence, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, and the present, Rémi Lanzoni examines a considerable number of the world's most beloved films. In French Cinema, he focuses his lens on outstanding examples from each era to give the cineaste in each of us new insight into our own favorites. Directors such as Robert Bresson, Marcel Carné, Claude Chabrol, René Clair, Jean Cocteau, Abel Gance, Louis Malle, Jean Renoir, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Tati, and François Truffaut are covered in depth, as are stars such as Arletty, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Maurice Chevalier, Catherine Deneuve, Max Linder, Jean Marais, Yves Montand, Jeanne Moreau, and Simone Signoret. French Cinema is enhanced by over 100 film stills as well as rare, archival photographs of the personalities who created and informed this superb national tradition.
Salut!'s decision will be final.
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