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PARENTALITÉ: Christmas in Paris with Joelle Benoliel

On this episode of PARENTALITÉ, we meet Joelle Benoliel, an American mom living in the heart of Paris. She is a communications coach and talks with Rachelle Chapman and ARBL Murray about navigating the cultural differences between French and American lifestyles. We talk about old French Christmas traditions, Hanukah, and French holiday cinema. 
Episode Notes and Recommendations:
Films:
Santa Claus is a Stinker (Le père Noël est une ordure) 1982 AND it's American remake Mixed Nuts! FOR ADULTS
French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzes go Skiing (Les Bronzés font du ski) 1979! FOR ADULTS
Santa & Cie (2017) FOR KIDS
 
Paris Playgrounds for meeting up with parents and other kids -
Jardin Villemin & Jardin Nelson Mandela
In The News: 
Anne Hidalgo announced an "urban forest" planting scheme for the Place de l'Hotel de Ville
Paris & IDF Holiday Lists:
Ice Skating at les Grand Palais 
Holiday Markets:
Tuileries,. Vincennes, Chantilly
 

Don't Tell comedy Paris: November 2024

This episode of Don't Tell Comedy on World Radio Paris took place at Iremmo (institute of research and studies Mediteranean moyen-orient) in the 5th arrondissement, on November 8.

Right to Write: Leo Zelada

Leo Zelada is the literary pseudonym of Braulio Rubén Tupaj Amaru Grajeda Fuentes, poet and writer. He studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru). He was the founder of the Néon poetry group. From 1983 to 1997, he traveled from Lima to Los Angeles by public transport and on foot, crossing the Andes, the Amazon, the Darien jungle, the Caribbean and Chiapas. He has published the poetry books Delirium Tremens, A Cyberpunk's diary, Nosferatu's opuscule at the Dawn, The dragon's Path, Minimal Poetics and Transpoétique, as well as two novels, American Death of Life and El Último Nómada. His work has been translated into English, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Greek, Arabic and other languages. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Poets of Other Worlds Prize, awarded by the International Poetic Fund of Spain in 2016. Two documentaries have been made about him: the first in 2013 and the second in 2021.
 
In 2022, his book Transpoétique was translated into French and presented at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris. In 2024, his second book was published in French: La Traversée de l'Innommable, which he presented and signed at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine and the Marché de la Poésie in Paris, and several of whose poems were featured in the prestigious contemporary art magazine Souffle Inédit. He has a blog, Dragon's Journal, with over 300,000 views.

FLÂNEUR: JEN SU

On this episode of Flaneur, phototographer Denzil Jacobs is joined by Philadelphia based television and media personality, Jen Su who talks about her experience at Paris Fashion Week 2024 (Womenswear) which took place in October. She tells us about the shows, fashion trends she spotted, and celebrity guests she rubbed shoulders with and even shares tips for spring fashionistas curious about attending this prestigious fashion event.Photography by Denzil Jacobs

This Is Not A Poem: Jessica Taggart Rose on the nature of Paris as poetry

Jessica Taggart Rose, a poet based in Margate, UK, speaks about her debut pamphlet, Theriver has no colour, published in a bilingual version by The New Menard Press. (https://www.thenewmenardpress.com/)
The poems paint Paris through the seasons, through the rain and the canicular sun, posing questions about the ecological problems the city faces. EK asks Jessica about her poetic process and thecollaboration between herself and Claire Durand-Gasslin, who did the French translation.Jessica Taggart Rose is a poet and performer concerned with humanity, nature and how theyinteract. Her poems have been published widely. She is a founding member of Poets for thePlanet (https://poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/), an Artful Scribe Creative Writer Against Coastal Waste and one half of the Promenade duo.
Website for Jessica
https://jessicataggartrose.com/

Lost in Frenchlation: French Fried Comedy with David Honnorat

For this holiday episode we are delving into cinema history with renowned cinephile, David Honnorat,  and talking all bout French comedy film. Our focus is Santa Claus is a Stinker (Le père Noël est une ordure) 1982, and French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzes go Skiing (Les Bronzés font du ski) 1979.
Both Films are Screening at 8pm on December 10th 2024 at L’Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, 75005 Paris. GET TICKETS HERE 
 
David is a renowned cinephile and video essayist. He runs a successful youtube channel called Calmos named after another film of the time by Bertrand Blier. He also wrote a movie guide and a Movieland map. 
 
David unpacks the cultural influences that made this era of comedy so unique and gives us some background on the Parisian theater company (Le Splendid) that created the movement. 
 
There are two of David’s videos with English subtitles on his channel Calmos
The essay on  Kitchen with Apartment (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj5aedz2iso
 
And OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0fURk7ykLI
 
Show Hosts are ARBL Murray and Manon Kerjean
 
Show Notes:
We love giving our audience a little homework. Here are David’s recommendations for getting started with French Comedy:
 
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Spy comedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_117:_Cairo,_Nest_of_Spies
 
La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
French civilians help a stranded British Royal Air Force crew navigate Nazi Occupied France to safety. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Vadrouille
 
Other French Comedy and Film Comedians mentioned in this episode:
Le splendid  - Theater Troupe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Splendid
 
Coluche - A French stage comedian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluche
 
Ettore Scola’s Ugly, dirty and nasty (Affreux, sales et méchants)
A dark Italian comedy about life in the outskirts of Rome. 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affreux,_sales_et_méchants
 
For More Information Go to Lostinfrenchlation.com

FLANEUR: Sebastien Gaudard

On this episode of Flaneur, host, photographer, Denzil Jacobs sits down with French Pastry Chef, Sébastien Gaudard at his Le Grand Café boutique located on rue Faubourg Poissonnière in Paris to talk about his family owned business and his journey and passion for the art of creating delicious and indulgent French style pastries at his 3 locations in Paris. 
 
Photography and Artwork by Denzil Jacobs.

FLANEUR: Belinda Davids

For the inaugural episode of FLÂNEUR, Denzil Jacobs, Photographer and show host, interviews South African singer Belinda Davids during her French Tour of her global live show “The Greatest Love of All” produced by Showtime Australia.
 

Petite Frite: American Germ Deniers in the President's cabinet

Lost In Frenchlation: Simon Bouisson's DRONE

In this episode ARBL Murray and Manon Kerjean talk to director Simon Bouisson about his latest film DRONE, his past work as an interactive filmmaker, building stories around the many layers of truth behind emerging technologies, the male gaze, making electronic music with composer Paul Saban, and using Artificial Intelligence in cinema. We also find out about what it was like to work with the drone racing community and the famous drone pilot, Benoit Finck. 
 
Drone is the story of Émilie, a young woman who has been accepted into an elite architecture program at one of Paris' top schools. To support herself and her education she works as a cam girl on the side. She enters into a strange relationship with a drone that watches her from her window at night. At first the drone seems to be a protector and friend but soon things turn very sinister and she has to uncover the truth about where this mysterious drone comes from and who is behind it. 
 
Simon Bouisson is a graduate of the prestigious La Fémis film school in Paris. After graduating he directed documentaries while exploring the possibilities of interactive filmmaking. His first feature narrative “Wei or Die” allowed the audience to switch between many points of view running simultaneously from a cell phone to a police body cam. Then he made "République," a film about a terrorist attack. With an app the viewer could slide through three running narratives as single points of view or in split screen. He went on to work with the idea of "slow TV" n a 9 hour experience for France 4 in which a man walks forward around a reversed Tokyo with all its inhabitants moving backward. In 2020 he started  directing a more linear type of series called STALK playing with the themes that are also present in DRONE: the digital world, its opportunities, its dangers, and how human nature can become warped by being so "online." Most recently he has been working on a feature film utilizing AI technology. You can read about it here (in French).