Movies to Listen to - The Music of Joseph Kosma - Film music from La Marie du Port (Marcel Carné), Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Jean Renoir), Juliette ou la Clé des Songes (Marcel Carné)
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Agnes Varda and Chris Marker, the cat. Forgot to mention how much I enjoyed THE BEACHES OF AGNES, an autobiographical essay-film by Agnes Varda. An 18 Certificate warned us of “strong sexual imagery,” which turned out to be one shot of man with an erect penis. I almost asked for my money back, then remembered that [...]
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Culture Warrior Landon Palmer, Foreign Objects specialist Rob Hunter and Dr. Cole Abaius take on the concept of slow films, and how they don't always have to be boring.
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Although its location inside the Forum des Halles is not the most desirable, Forum des Images is the gem of this underground maze. Nowhere else will you find such an enormously varied film agenda including 1920s silent film, contemporary art house cinema and everything in between. There is a strong emphasis on the French cinema tradition with regular [...]
I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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...
Fleapit of the Mind (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Jour se leve Marcel Carne's JOUR SE LEVE bridges the gap between the Poetic Realism movement and that of The Popular Front. The film starts with a murder and then; with the murderer cornered in his attic room, we see how fate has led to the crime. Carne is one of the great directors of cinema with a string of classic films to his name and with his epic drama LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS often being cited...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A month ago I attended a Parents’ Day conference at one of our kids’ private high schools. A history teacher set to retire after 45 years of service was musing on...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
LGBT people born today: 1876 - Natalie Clifford Barney - US Playwright / Poet / Author - Died 2nd February 1972 1888 - Napoleon Lapathiotis - Greek Poet - Died 7th January 1944 1896 - Ethel Waters - US Singer / Actress - Died 1st September 1977 1940 - Craig Rodwell - US Activist - Died 18th June 1993 1942 - David Ogden Stiers - US Actor / Musician 1956 - Bruce Bawer - US Literary Critic / Author /...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
In foreign DVD news, Artificial Eye has announced Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank for 25 January. After a May delay, M6 Vidéo in France has set 12 November as the new date for their Édition Prestige of Marcel Carné's Les visiteurs du soir , which is set to include a documentary by Marc Caro on "le cinéma fantastique français." As expected, no English subtitles...
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Francois Truffaut’s 1954 “A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema” really was the atomic bomb of movie reviewing, obliterating an entire artistic landscape in one blast. To this day we are feeling the effects of Truffaut’s diatribe against the directors and screenwriters of the “Tradition of Quality,” to the point where any release of [...]
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
In honor of the release of its new DVD edition of The Last Days of Disco, the folks at the...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
By Edward Copeland Usually when I do a Centennial Tribute, it's an overview of a person's career, hitting his or her highlights and emphasizing the importance of the man or woman. In the case of Marcel Carné, I'm taking a different tact. Time and other issues prevented me from delving more deeply into his filmography. Besides, it also gave me a chance to write in depth about his masterpiece,...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
LGBT people born today: 1852 – Guglielmo Pluschow – German Photographer – Died 3rd January 1930 1906 – Marcel Carne – French Director – Died 31st October 1996 1966 – Steve Cannon – US [?] Porn 1970 – Josh Zuckerman – US Singer / Songwriter / Musician And those who died: 1957 – Jacob Schorer – Dutch Lawyer / Activist – Born...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
France Feature Film Director: Marcel Carné Writers: Jacques Viot, Jacques Prévert Cinematographers: Philippe Agostini, André Bac, Albert Viguier Composer: Maurice Jaubert Cast: Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent, Arletty, Jules Berry A never better Gabin plays a charming factory worker, who, the object of an armed siege, sits, chain-smoking away, remembering the lies and loves that...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Many standard reference works cite Aug. 18, 1909, as the birthdate of the famous French movie director Marcel Carne. Evidently, he had succeeded in fudging the date by three years, making it feasible for centennial planners to extend the eventual remembrances from 2006 to the present. The actual date is better for rounding off the life, since Mr. Carne died in October 1996 at age 90, but the blown...
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