oldhollywood : Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in Jules & Jim (1962, dir. Francois Truffaut) Although the film is named for the men, its animating force is Catherine, a creature both utterly timeless (Jules and Jim first see her visage in a photo of a Greek statue) and forever changing: at different points, she plays the roles of Charlie Chaplin and street tough, vamp, and doting mother. Passionate...
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959) Director: Francois Truffaut By Roderick Heath The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut’s debut film, is a work around which implicit ironies swirl. It looks as much backwards as it does forwards, to...
I'm delighted to introduce a new guest blogger on Boing Boing, Dr. Jacques Vallee, who will contribute posts on an occasional basis. In the world of computer science, Jacques is best known for his pioneering database research in the 1960s at Stanford Research Institute and then, during the next decade, for leading the development of the the world's first network-based computer conferencing system for...
Screened November 14 2009 on DVD rip of Video Yesteryear VHS (dubbed in English), purchased on Amazon TSPDT Rank #903 IMDb Wiki Andre Bazin called it “the first and most exemplary psychologically realistic film” in French cinema. Francois Truffaut singled it out as a prime culprit of “le cinema du papa” against which he and other members of [...]
By Jonathan Pacheco The first time I saw The 400 Blows a couple of years ago, I walked away unimpressed, seeing it as a solid film, but one that was "about" a lot less than most people thought. I credited the film's praise mostly to its relationship with the French New Wave, or to people's infatuation with the heavily autobiographical threads that François Truffaut wove throughout...
OH, THAT CHEEKY, MOVIE-CRAZY BASTERD! Quentin Tarantino’s latest tribute to an inglourious genre may frustrate your inner academic but it totally floors the inner art-lover. NOV 15, 2009 – DISCUSSING THE FAILURE OF STAGE FRIGHT, HITCHCOCK comme...
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/13 1312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take ), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death....
The mysterious Purple magazine founding Frenchman will be bring his unique blend of naked ladies, naked ladies, naked ladies, famous people and black-and-white pictures to a gallery in December,...
At Edinburgh Filmhouse the other night, I was just seconds too late to photograph a member of staff taking down the poster for CITIZEN KANE, unconscious, it seemed, that she was recreating Francois Truffaut’s dream from LA NUIT AMERICAIN. Posted in FILM Tagged: Citizen Kane, Day For Night, Filmhouse, La Nuit Americain, Truffaut [...]
As the FIAF’s Cinema Tuesday series François Truffaut: A Winter Portrait continues this week, they are scheduled to screen one of my favorite films tonight, Truffaut’s The Wild Child . A story about a teacher who makes it his goal to educate a feral child, The Wild Child looks at what exactly it means to be human and how we become who we are (socialization or nature). The teacher...
David Britain writing for VINGT Paris, photo courtesy of Forum des images. Although its location inside the Forum des Halles is not the most desirable, the Forum des Images is the gem of this underground maze. Nowhere else will you...
Jose here bringing you the Monday Monologue. From the moment Erin Brockovich was released, in March of 2000, everyone knew that Julia Roberts would win an Oscar for it. There was nary a review that did not point out how fantastic she was, how she carried the burdens of a dramatic role so well (after practically creating the entire rom-com movement throughout the 90's) and how big her boobs looked....
Fifty years ago this month, Jean-Luc Godard was putting the finishing touches on his first feature film: “the story of a young American woman and a Frenchman. Things can’t work out between them because he thinks about death and she doesn’t.” Deriving from a script treatment by Godard’s friend François Truffaut, and released in Paris in March 1960, Breathless was...
I have nothing but best wishes and hearty encouragement for the folks organizing the inaugural Cinema Arts Festival Houston , which got some nice coverage today in the Houston Chronicle . But talk about bad timing: The H-Town event takes place directly opposite the Starz Denver Film Festival -- where I'll be doing an on-stage Q&A with (and presenting an Excellence in Acting award to) Hal Holbrook...
CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR KIDS: Chocolate Chip Chamber Music at Old First Dutch Reformed Church (Seventh Avenue at Carroll in Park Slope). Performances on Saturday morning at 10 and 11:30 AM, and Sunday afternoon at 4. Also at the Brooklyn Public Library (Grand Army Plaza) at 1 PM in the Stevan Dweck auditorium. COMICS: Comic Book Convention with big name artists and fans gather at the first King Con at...
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