'Shindig'
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I know that Nigeria has a thriving film industry, called "Nollywood", but I don't know how French it is.
Nigeria was an English colony, so, not very much at all.
I... think I have seen exactly one French-language film from Africa, and it was in black and white, from the 1960s, and I'm pretty sure it was directed by Ousmane.
Not that I can name very many English-language films from Africa either. (And those I can are almost all South African, and most of them white.)
African Cinema at wikipedia has a listing of directors by country.
Djibril Diop Mambety is a major Senegalese director.
Yes, I found that, I'm just trying to get an idea of relative name recognition.
I figure if you guys don't know them, I shouldn't assume anyone else does.
How about Quebecois filmmakers that aren't Denys Arcand?
A new Muppet Movie, co-written by Jason Segel:
I don't know how good of a writer he is but he is a TOTAL Muppet!
How about Quebecois filmmakers that aren't Denys Arcand?
Yeah that would be it for me. And I couldn't have recalled his name off the top of my head.
Robert LePage, Yves Simoneau, Francois Girard, That L'auzon guy who did Un Zoo La Nuit and Leolo, Jean-Marc Valle.
I don't know how good of a writer he is
If early reviews of Forgetting Sarah Marshall are any indication, pretty good!
I feel I should know more but Quebecois films rarely travel to English Canada.
If early reviews of Forgetting Sarah Marshall are any indication, pretty good!
Awesome!!! That film is automatically funny to me because I have a friend with that name.