Showing posts with label Jacques Demy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacques Demy. Show all posts
Friday, 2 June 2017

The French list .....

›
Continuing our Lists theme, 25 essential French flicks we love, from the Fifties to the Seventies, again two maximum from each director ...
2 comments:
Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Back to La La Land

›
A return visit to LA LA LAND was nice this week, for a rainy afternoon, as my partner had not seen it, and yes, he loved it - the mu...
Monday, 6 February 2017

New year re-views 5: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

›
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...
1 comment:
Wednesday, 18 January 2017

La La Land

›
Finally, LA LA LAND . See the hit movie, sure, but don't think it's the best musical ever just because you've never seen a mu...
1 comment:
Sunday, 9 October 2016

Jeanne and the perfect guy

›
Another French flick we had not heard of here in the UK, as presumably it never played here. I would have heard of it or read about it an...
Thursday, 17 December 2015

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

›
A midwinter treat ...... I simply love this movie, as per reiews - Deneuve, Dorleac, Demy labels.  Click the full-screen icon to see it w...
6 comments:
Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Deneuve & Dorleac

›
More French 1960s glamour ... with sisters Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac in Jacques Demy's LES DEMOISELLES DEROCHEFORT , ...

Anouk and 1960s glamour ...

›
I have not featured French actress Anouk Aimee here for a while, she is certainly another favourite whom I like in so many films, particu...
Saturday, 18 October 2014

All those directors !

›
Following on from the lists of actors and actresses we like, here is the Directors list .... its bigger than I imagined !  Michelange...
2 comments:
Thursday, 29 May 2014

A Hard Day's Night, 50 years on ... + SLIH

›
London's British Film Institute is celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles first film A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, with an extend...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

The girl with a suitcase - 1961

›
A taster of Valerio Zurlini's 1961 Italian classic: LA RAGAZZA CON LA VALIGIA or THE GIRL WITH A SUITCASE .  She is Claudia Card...
Thursday, 27 February 2014

French glamour, thanks to Monsieur Demy ...

›
Jacques Demy's films are awash with that particular type of French glamour, as we have noted here before, see labels, where he dre...