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20 AU CINÉMA CE SOIR Your disc is called ‘Au cinéma ce soir’ (At the cinema tonight). Is the title a tribute to someone in particular? To Armand Panigel – a man of great culture (the creator of the record critics’ discussion programme La Tribune des critiques de disques on French radio, among others) and a film buff – and to my first stirrings of cinephilia, which I owe to his television series Au cinéma ce soir . A series devoted to French cinema that I watched with my parents from the age of eight. I have memories of outstandingly valuable programmes, ranging from the thirties to the fifties, with films like Julien Duvivier’s Pépé le Moko , Raymond Bernard’s Wooden Crosses , Jacques Becker’s Falbala . And its value was further enriched by the interviews and documentaries presented in the programme L’Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l’ont fait (The history of the cinema by those who made it). A little aside: the screenplay of Falbala was written by Maurice Aubergé (also the scriptwriter of Henri Decoin’s La Vérité sur Bébé Donge ), a cousin of my piano teacher Denyse Rivière. What’s more, the music, truly haunting and superb, was composed by Jean-Jacques Grunenwald.