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Voici le temps des assassins (Julien Duvivier, 1956)

spinenumbered wrote 1 month ago: The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films presents V … more →

Tags: film, Crime, France, Criterion Collection, Noir and Neonoir, Suspense, Black and White, academy ratio, 1950s

Film review: Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Mistlake wrote 1 month ago:   Director: Julien Duvivier. Screenwriters: Ernest Pascal, Samuel Hoffenstein, Ellis St. Joseph … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Fantasy, Review, film, 1943, Flesh and Fantasy, Edward G. Robinson, barbara stanwyck, Charles Boyer

Vivien Leigh lovely but lost as tragic Anna

Jana J. Monji wrote 4 months ago: Chemistry is everything and Vivien Leigh had chemistry with Clark Gable in the 1939 “Gone with … more →

Tags: Movie Reviews, General Audiences, VOD(video on Demand), Leo Tolstoy, Niall MacGinnis, Sally Ann Howes, Ralph Richardson, Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan

The squeaky wheel of Death5 comments

dcairns wrote 4 months ago: Over at The Daily Notebook, an all-too-brief, but undeniably seasonal edition of The Forgotten. … more →

Tags: film, mythology, La Charrette Fantome, The Daily Notebook, The Forgotten, The Phantom Carriage

Defining and Defending the Nation: The National and the Transnational influences in Pepe le Moko (Duvivier, 1936)

jsculturalzeitgeist wrote 6 months ago:  Look at the film’s ‘French-ness’: What makes the film French? -       What defines Pepe le Moko as … more →

Tags: french cinema, French Cinema, Entertainment, Politics, Pépé le Moko, French-ness, casbah, Poetic Realism, Mise en Scène

Anna Karenina (1948)

www.imustseemovie.com wrote 7 months ago: Directed by Julien Duvivier, Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked h … more →

Tags: imustseemovie, Vivien Leigh, Michael Gough, Heather Thatcher, Ralph Richardson, Anna Karenina, Guy Morgan, Jean Anouilh, KIERON MOORE

Anna Karenina (April 27, 1948)

Adam Lounsbery wrote 9 months ago: Julien Duvivier’s Anna Karenina was the second non-silent film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy … more →

Tags: 1948, January 1948, April 1948, 20th Century Fox, Vivien Leigh, Leo Tolstoy, KIERON MOORE, Ralph Richardson, London Film Productions

A Classic French Cinema Primer, pt. 1: Beyond the "Tradition of Quality"16 comments

michaelgloversmith wrote 1 year ago: The pre-Nouvelle Vague French cinema remains unjustly neglected in a lot of critical and cinephile q … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Historical Movement / National Cinema Primers, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, l'age d'or?, Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, L'Atalante, The Rules of the Game

Paris By Night

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: From Duvivier’s ALLO BERLIN? ICI PARIS! Two couples on a night out — according to the pl … more →

Tags: film, Allo Berlin Ici Paris!, bananas, Jean-Luc Godard, Le Mèpris, Woody Allen

Screening the evidence15 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Watched LA TETE D’UN HOMME, Julien Duvivier’s Maigret film, made at exactly the same tim … more →

Tags: film, Alexnader Rignault, Harry Baur, Jean Renoir, Just Imagine..., La Nuit de Carrefour, La Tete d'un Homme, Liliom, Pathé-Natan

A Bad Egg25 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Took me ages to get around to VOICI LES TEMPS DES ASSASSINS, a major Julien Duvivier film. Not sure … more →

Tags: film, Billy Wilder, Jean Gabin, La Belle Equipe, Viviane Romance, Voici les Temps des Assassins, Danièle Delorme

week in review, 02/20 - 02/26/2012

Jesse Ataide wrote 1 year ago: All first viewings this week. Theatrical Viewing Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, USA, 1957) - Castr … more →

Tags: Week in Review, Week in Review, paths of glory, Kubrick, ace in the hole, wilder, mystery of the eiffel tower, Vivian Sobchack

"Movies in Comicolor"17 comments

Kimberly Lindbergs wrote 1 year ago: Comic books and movies seem to be synonymous these days but both industries share a long and fascina … more →

Tags: Classic Films, Jerry Lewis, Fred Astaire, William Holden, Elizabeth Taylor, Dean Martin, Betty Hutton, william powell, george sanders

Anna Karenina (1948)1 comment

jeffro517 wrote 1 year ago: Anna Karenina Directed by Julien Duvivier Starring: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hu … more →

Tags: Classic Films, Dramas, Romance, film, Movies, 1948, Reviews, Anna Karenina, Vivien Leigh

Don Camillo (1952)40 comments

dustedoff wrote 1 year ago: I am not a party animal. I do not drink. I have two left feet. Loud music makes my head throb. I fin … more →

Tags: Other Cinema, French Cinema, excellent film, italian cinema, Franco-Italian film production, Don Camillo, Giovanni Guareschi, Fernandel, gino cervi

Film Stocking Fillers29 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: A wild west Christmas tree from LES PETROLEUSES. I hate lists, generally — too much film writi … more →

Tags: film, mythology, Television, Merle Oberon, Preston Sturges, Mitchell Leisen, barbara stanwyck, fred macmurray, Victor Sjostrom

Emordnilap18 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: EMORDNILAP is PALINDROME backwards, you see. A palindrome isn’t, as one might assume, a nightm … more →

Tags: film, Music, Destiny, Flesh and Fantasy, Reginald LeBorg, Yvonne DeCarlo, Lamp of Love

Pictures in the Fire23 comments

dcairns wrote 2 years ago: Mr Pond nodded; he seemed to be suddenly smitten with a fit of abstraction. At last he said: “ … more →

Tags: film, john dickson carr, Lydia, G.K. Chesterton, The Paradoxes of Mr Pond

Best Pictures of 1937 (#6) - Pépé le Moko2 comments

Jason Marshall wrote 2 years ago: (France) Director, Julien Duvivier; Screenplay, Jacques Constant and Henri Jeanson; Producers, Raymo … more →

Tags: Yearly Best Pictures, 1937, Charles Boyer, Pépé le Moko, Jean Gabin, lucas gridoux, Gaby Gould, algiers


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