Tonyfuller

The BFI have recently had a season of films by Jean-Pierre Melville running at the NFT in London. They have just released 3 of his films on DVD, Le Cercle Rouge (1970), Le Doulos (1963) and Leon Morin, Petre (1961), all with subtitles and available on line at www.moviemail-online.co.uk. More by melville to follow and hopefully they will get around to issuing Un Flic in the not too distant future. Also Artificial Eye do a wonderful series of French Films, all with subtitles for those who, like me, need more practise with the language, inclusing a new boxed set of the Three Colours Trilogy, with an additional DVD full of extras. HMV currently have a world film sale on with, amongst others, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources and Cyrano de Bergerac. Also available from HMV, but I think full price, are La Gloire de Mon Pere and Le Chateau de Ma Mere, also from novels by Marcel Pagnol. Tony Fuller

Margaret, wash your mouth out with soap and water or whatever the internet equivalent is. All self respecting cinephiles read it, all 7 of us - Plus DVD Review, File Review, Hotdog etc etc plus a really good but rather academic UK cinemag on French Films Tony Fuller

I have dealt with clients in the Gulf States and sometimes their letters/emails seem odd and disjointed, like they were written as flatpack instructions from IKEA then translated into Serbo-Croat then back into English. But, I remember what an investigator into BCCI told me - if it seems too good to be true, it probably is - not that I was a BCCI client, we were just out for a drink with some of the BCCI team. Don't touch it with the proverbial and pass the message on to the appropriate authorities for further enquiries. Tony Fuller

Director's pseudonyms are always good fun. There is a convention in the cinema that if a director wants his name removed, the studio is supposed to use the name of John Smithers - haven't got a clue why but saw an intetresting snippet about it in Sight and Sound some years ago. Tony Fuller

Hi Guys If anybody is interested in the French Wars of Religion (abt 1550 to 1720). including the time in which La Reine Margot was set (it's a novel but good nevertheless)contact me directly and I can give you some other books that might interest you - I'm an historical researcher who specialises in French and European Huguenot/Calvinist history, family research and stuff like that and can point people in the direction of some easy introduction stuff. Regards Tony Fuller

Hi folks We're moving to France later this year and we want to continue our business (we are professional historical researchers specialising in Huguenot history)which we currently do in the UK, where we have a registered limited company. Apart from registration issues, is there any reason or legal constraint on us maintaining our company in the uk with a uk address through which we can channel our uk based work and have a similar arrangement in France, through which we channel our French work and earnings? Regards TonyF

Hi folks My first posting The boss and I are moving over to France later this year/early next year and we hope to be living somewhere in or near the Perigord Noir/Vert areas. Apart from keeping chickens (our friends who have lived in France for eons keep them and when we're there I get to feed them and stuff) and think that keeping chickens won't be a problem for us. But one of my ambitions has always been to keep bees and this may just be the opportunity I need to produce (not directly myself you understand) eggs and honey, wax and the like. I've enjoyed looking through the chicken posts but don't recall reading anything about bee keeping. Does anybody keep bees, any ideas about good French websites, local apiarists and such? Regards TonyF