On this day 32 years ago Three Colours: White (1994), directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, premiered in France. “’Three Colors: White’ (1994) is about equality understood as a contradiction. We understand the concept of ‘equality’, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don’t think anybody really wants to be equal.” Krzysztof Kieślowski | History of Cinema

10K views · 250 reactions | 69 years ago, Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" (1956) was released in France. | History of Cinema | Facebook

1K views · 752 reactions | Eric Rohmer on the difference in how Scriptwriters are treated in France and America: “Interviewer: American script-writers are very much the servants of the directors. Perhaps more than in France. Professionally it’s very difficult to get intothe system because the producers have their stable of script-writers…" The full text is available for our subscribers. | History of Cinema | Facebook

27K views · 850 reactions | "William Friedkin's 'The French Connection' (1971) came out while we were filming 'The Godfather' (1972), & people who'd seen the film & who saw The Godfather rushes implied that our film was boring by comparison." Francis Ford Coppola | History of Cinema | Facebook

"The French New Wave didn’t do anything—nothing important, anyway. They never made a 'Carnival in Flanders', 'a Grand Illusion', or a 'Children of Paradise', forgive my saying so. They made “intimate” films with some kind of elevator music—like Truffaut." Marcel Carné Children of Paradise (1945), directed by Marcel Carné | History of Cinema