Showing posts with label Truffaut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truffaut. Show all posts
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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Sunday, 18 September 2016

Hitchcock/Truffaut

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That recent documentary (by Kent Jones) on Francois Truffaut's 1962 interview with Alfred Hitchcock turns out to be a real treat. I h...
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Friday, 23 October 2015

Image de jour: Antoine et la mer ...

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A vivid memory from 1959 (I was 13) was seeing Truffaut's THE 400 BLOWS at my local cinema in Ireland. That ending was astonishing as ...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014

A classic year: 1975

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IMDB 's Classic Film Board has a thread on the best films of 1975. I submitted my 1975 top twenty - I didn't realise it was such ...
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Thursday, 28 August 2014

A French double bill, with Blain & Deneuve ...

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LES AMIS, 1971. Can one truly comprehend a talky movie in a foreign language, without sub-titles?. This fascinating oddity by French ac...
Friday, 11 October 2013

Catherine Deneuve: from Indochine to Place Vendome

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INDOCHINE How good to see Catherine Deneuve still very busy filming with several items lined up after 50 years in cinema. Like Cate B...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Summer re-runs: La Sirene du Mississippi

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"This enthralling, erotic tale of a young millionaire and his mysterious bride is bewitching, exciting and beautiful. Written and di...
Saturday, 18 June 2011

Movies I Love: THE HISTORY OF ADELE H

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Francois Truffaut's 1975 L'HISTOIRE DE ADELE H is one of those movies that enthralled me so much that I came out of the cinema as ...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Some French films....

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4 French flicks I recently enjoyed: DEATHWATCH or LE MORT EN DIRECT - Bertrand Tavernier's 1979 futuristic film (released in 1980)...