With the British sun playing its traditional hide and seek for yet another summer, cinema’s ability to transport the viewer to idyllic places from all over the world should be fully exploited. So if you are interested in a quick trip across the pond, Ciné Lumière promises to offer you…
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In the last two months, Hackneyites may have noticed that among the fried chicken and chips, kebab shops and Chinese takeaways that litter Mare Street resides a new and unlikely French cafe that’s become an instant hit with the locals. Bouchon Fourchette serves easy French faves as casually as they…
It’s very rare we extoll the virtues of breakfast on TCé – and considering all the adventuring we get up to, we should! – so we happily accepted an invite to try an early morning meal at Electric Diner, a new restaurant on Portobello Road. The collaboration between Soho House…
It was 1992 when a small film festival first appeared in two Scottish cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow celebrating the rich cinematic tradition of our Gallic neighbours. Fast forward to 2012, and the French Film Festival is now one of the UK’s most enduring and exciting film festivals. Major cities across…
It seems that Jacques Audiard’s latest film Rust and Bone cannot avoid comparisons to Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s Untouchable. They were the two main contenders for France’s submission for the foreign-language feature Oscar with the committee ultimately being dazzled by the impressive world-wide gross of the latter rather than…
As you may have noticed from the Olympic opening ceremony, London is pretty proud of its music scene. The city often acts as an intersection between the many cultures that find themselves here; the fusion and production of new sounds. If you want to see this in practice here’s something…