Movies
One of the key pleasures of the Danish film “Babette’s Feast,” which won the Oscar for best foreign film, is that it is a personal triumph for its star, French actress Stephane Audran.
April 13, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Showtime Sunday at 8 a.m.)
Dec. 19, 1993
Note: Five of French director Claude Chabrol’s later films — “Betty” (1992), “Color of Lies” (1999), “Night Cap” (2000), “The Swindle” (1997) and “Torment” (1994), all featuring some of France’s biggest stars of the era — screen as part of the “Chabrol 5 X 5” series.
Sept. 28, 2016
A well-dressed woman with a haunted look steps almost by chance into a small Paris bar.
Aug. 27, 1993
“Les Bonnes Femmes,” one of Claude Chabrol’s earliest and best films, screens today through Wednesday at the Nuart with a new 35-millimeter print.
Feb. 11, 2000
In Gabriel Axel’s exquisite adaptation of the Isak Dinesen story of two elderly Danish sisters who have sacrificed their chances at love and fame for a life of abstinence and good deeds; of their deviously devout father; of their French cook, Babette (Stephane Audran, pictured with Lars Lohmann), who has sacrificed culinary glory for faithful service in their penurious kitchen.
Sept. 8, 1996
Le Boucher (1970) Bravo, Thursday at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Feb. 25, 1990
Babette’s Feast (Bravo Sunday at 5 p.m.): Subtle, amusing Isak Dinesen tale starring Stephane Audran as a selfless servant who offers an astonishing gift of gratitude to her employers, a pair of elderly sisters. (1:40) Modern Romance (Channel 13 Tuesday at noon): Albert Brooks’ 1981 romantic comedy, in which he casts himself as a Hollywood film editor so totally enamored of an attractive bank official (Kathryn Harrold) that he makes their lives miserable with his possessiveness and jealousy.
Nov. 5, 1989
To celebrate the centennial of the birth of the great Spanish iconoclast Luis Bun~uel, Rialto Pictures is releasing a freshly restored, newly subtitled “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972), which won a best foreign film Oscar.
June 2, 2000
At the beginning of the aptly named “Maximum Risk,” a solid, fast-moving action-adventure, Jean-Claude Van Damme is running for his life through ancient, narrow streets in a town in the South of France only to wind up dead.
Sept. 14, 1996