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BANDE À PART

steev wrote 6 days ago: Bande à part d. Jean-Luc Godard / 1964 / France / 97 mins Viewed at: The Box @ FACT (Liverpool, UK) … more →

Tags: Screen Addict, 1960s, France, nouvelle vague, Jean-Luc Godard

The Wages of Fear

lichanos wrote 1 week ago: A French melodrama from 1953.  Does it detract from film to classify it that way?  A long film that … more →

Tags: adventure films, Anti-Americanism, Cinema, Clouzot, film noir, Kubrick, Melodrama, Movies, Nitroglycerine

A Note on Narrative and Direction in A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)

A.R. Duckworth wrote 1 week ago: In A Bout de Souffle (1960) a brief cameo from the director Jean-Luc Godard highlights the construct … more →

Tags: Auteur/Authorship, À bout de souffle, Auteur, Breathless, Breathless 1960, cameo, Direction, Director, French film

Seraphine

sinistarx wrote 2 weeks ago: Seraphine, SIFF 2009, 9/10 Seraphine Louis aka Seraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau) is leading a si … more →

Tags: Movies, Review, SIFF 2009, siff, French Artists

Film review - Coco avant Chanel (2009)9 comments

Thomas Caldwell wrote 2 weeks ago: Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (Audrey Tautou) Director Anne Fontaine has said of the iconic French … more →

Tags: 3 Stars, Film Reviews, Alessandro Nivola, Anne Fontaine, Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Coco avant Chanel, Coco before Chanel, Coco Chanel

Drôle de Drame-1937

bennythomas wrote 2 weeks ago: In an age of anxiety leading to WWII filmmakers in France coped as best as they could. Judging from … more →

Tags: BW, Black Comedy, Jacques Prévert, Louis Jouvet, Marcel Carné, Maurice Jaubert, Michel Simon

Lola Montes (1955)

thirtyframesasecond wrote 2 weeks ago: France/West Germany Director: Max Ophuls 110 min Synopsis American and Europe, the nineteenth centur … more →

Tags: Anton Walbrook, Flashback, Martine Carol, Max Ophuls, Peter Ustinov

Bande à part (1964) - review

actuallyadog wrote 2 weeks ago: French New Wave cinema has a special, reverent aura surrounding it. If you want to know about … more →

Tags: 1, anna karina, Black and White, Crime, film, godard, Movie, New Wave

Two French Thrillers

venicelion wrote 3 weeks ago: Diane Kruger and Vincent Lindon in Pour elle Two French thrillers were released in the UK by Metrodo … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Melodrama

Martyrs18 comments

Cristina wrote 3 weeks ago: MARTYRS – 2008 plot: The Brotherhood of the Wolf director Pascal Lauguier follows his 2004 th … more →

Tags: Horror, Gore, Martyrs, french extreme wave, French Horror, torture porn, Torture

La fille coupé en deux (France/Germany 2007)

venicelion wrote 3 weeks ago: Ludivine Sagnier as Gabrielle Written by Stephen Gott Warning: The following contains extensive plo … more →

Tags: nouvelle vague

Martyrs (2008, Pascal Laugier)

gelpi2008 wrote 3 weeks ago: Horror aficionados beware, be very aware. Don’t let the advertising for this movie fool you. … more →

Tags: Foreign, Horror

Film review - Shall We Kiss? (2007)2 comments

Thomas Caldwell wrote 4 weeks ago: Judith (Virginie Ledoyen) and Nicolas (Emmanuel Mouret) A chance encounter in Nantes leads to a roma … more →

Tags: 3 Stars, Film Reviews, Cinema Autopsy, emmanuel mouret, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen, shall we kiss, Un baiser s'il vous plaît, Virginie Ledoyen

Eric Rohmer's "My Night At Maud's"

aoxonoma wrote 1 month ago: Last night, I had the absolute privilege to screen Eric Rohmer’s “My Night at Maud … more →

Tags: film, Film Review, Philosophy, 6 Moral Tales, Eric Rohmer, French film, mathematics, My Night at Maud's, Pascal

The Earrings of Madame de..-1953

bennythomas wrote 1 month ago: In one of the three Guy de Maupassant–derived stories of Ophuls’s Le plaisir (1952), the rejected mo … more →

Tags: Charles Boyer, Chick Flick, Danielle Darrieux, de sica, Max Ophuls

La tête contre les murs, directed by Georges Franju

Amber wrote 1 month ago: La tête contre les murs (Head Against The Wall), dir. by Georges Franju I think Georges Franju’s Eye … more →

Tags: Georges Franju, New Wave Theory & Philosophy, Arthouse, Cartier Bresson, CHARLES AZNAVOUR, Classic Movies, Foucault, franju, french new wave

Les Visiteurs du Soir-1942

bennythomas wrote 1 month ago: Les Visiteurs du Soir (aka: The Devil’s Envoys) is unquestionably a masterpiece that came out … more →

Tags: films, Satan, Parable, The Nazi Occupation, Jacques Prévert, Jules Berry, Arletty, Marcel Carné, stone statues

Time of the Wolf: (People)

moviemasher wrote 1 month ago: Time of the Wolf/Le temps du loup Directed & Written by Michael Haneke Starring Isabelle Hupper … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, French film, horror films, Isabelle Huppert, Le Temps du loup, Michael Haneke, Time of the Wolf

Pepe le moko-1937

bennythomas wrote 1 month ago: This blog is devoted to movies over which I do not mind losing sleep.b. Pépé Le Moko-1937 In 1931, t … more →

Tags: films


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