Francois Girard

Fast-Paised review: 'Silk'

2007-09-13 00:00:00

19th Century silkworm merchant Herve (Michael Pitt, in need of some non-drowsy meds) travels from France to Japan in pursuit of healthy worm eggs. There, he finds himself smitten with a mysterious, silent young woman (Sei Ashina), which confuses Herve,...

Movie review: 'Silk'

2007-09-13 00:00:00

2 stars (out of four) "Silk" is a shaggy worm tale about a young Frenchman's instant obsession with a once-glimpsed Japanese woman beginning in 1862. Based on Alessandro Baricco's bestselling novella, it stars Michael Pitt as Herve Joncour, the...

The cult of Glenn Gould

2003-08-10 00:00:00

It began, unpromisingly, with music written to put you to sleep. But when the dashing 22-year-old Glenn Gould recorded a little-known piece Bach had come up with to soothe an aristocratic insomniac, the pianist's ecstatic, ferocious playing kick-started...

Performers from Cirque Du Soleil present a segment called "Trapeze" during a news preview of their latest show titled "Zarkana" at New York 's Radio City Music Hall . "Zarkana", which was specially designed for Radio City by Line Tremblay, director of creation, and Francois Girard , writer and

2011-05-24 00:00:00