Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 November 2017

The Wages of Fear / Sorcerer

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I realised the other day I had never seen Henri-George Clouzot's 1953 classic THE WAGES OF FEAR , that highly regarded thriller about...
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Sunday, 26 November 2017

Frantz, 2016

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In the aftermath of World Wa r I in 1919 Germany, Anna notice a stranger placing flowers on the grave of her fiance, Frantz. She now live...
Thursday, 19 October 2017

RIP, continued

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Danielle Darrieux (1917-2017), aged 100. Madame Darrieux, one of France's premier stars clocked up 140 credits, including several cl...
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Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Jeanne Moreau, RIP

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We are sad indeed to read that French icon Jeanne Moreau has passed away at age 89. Moreau (1928-2017) also sang, directed and wrote scre...
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Friday, 2 June 2017

The French list .....

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Continuing our Lists theme, 25 essential French flicks we love, from the Fifties to the Seventies, again two maximum from each director ...
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Saturday, 13 May 2017

Pour le weekend

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Our French favourites: Deneuve, Dorleac, Adjani & Huppert, Aimee, Audran, Hardy, Laforet .... plenty on them at labels!  ...
Thursday, 4 May 2017

Pour le weekend ...

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An Alain Delon tribute, using mainly clips from our perennial favourites PLEIN SOLEIL , L'ECLISSE , LE SAMOURAI ... A...
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Monday, 1 May 2017

100 today: Danielle Darrieux

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Happy 100th birthday to another French legend, the effortlessly elegant Danielle Darrieux , whom we have posted on here a few times.  ...
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Friday, 28 April 2017

For the weekend 2: Samba Saravah

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We always like posting items on French legend Anouk Aimee , 85 yesterday - maybe the most glamorous and mysterious of the French stars. We ...
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Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Male Hunt, 1964

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Here's a rarity indeed - I had not even heard of it until pal Jerry found it - AND it features a lot of those European favourites ear...
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Wednesday, 15 March 2017

An omelette and a glass of wine ...

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Its a pleasure to discover Elizabeth David's books on French and Italian food and cooking, originally published in the 1950s and earl...
Monday, 6 February 2017

New year re-views 5: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

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LA LA LAND got me in the mood for those Jacques Demy musicals once again - we love THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG , but even more, his 1967 TH...
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C for Chabrol ....

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My movie buff pal Martin has covered Chabrol's 1968  LA FEMME INFIDELE in his Facebook "Auteurist History of Cinema" featu...
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Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Italian rarity: Adua & her friends - hungry for love

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Another Italian rarity, one I had not heard of until recently. How could a film featuring Simone Signoret (just after her ROOM AT THE TOP...
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Monday, 23 January 2017

Paris la nuit avec Theo et Hugo

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THEO & HUGO, 2016. Hugo (François Nambot) and Théo (Geoffrey Couët) meet, in a highly-explicit fashion, in a French sex club. After ...
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