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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Birthday Boys and Girls of 11/11 1821 Fyodor Dostoevsky , legendary Russian author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov fame. So many movies inspired by his work. But he's not the legendary Russian author that'll be getting all the press this next couple of months. That'd be Leo Tolstoy, soon to be chattered about when The Last Station emerges as an Oscar contender . 1887 Roland Young...
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Tativille (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Introduction Traveling down the nine hundred eighty-four feet of one of the emblematic structures of the nineteenth century, the Eiffel Tower, via the twentieth century’s signature cinematic medium, René Clair’s Paris qui dort (a.k.a. The Crazy Ray , 1924) provides a taxonomy for an art form born in the late eighteenth century, the panorama. Beginning with a cartographic view of...
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SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
In the fascinating and highly amusing Put Money in Thy Purse, Michael Mac Liammoir’s memoir* of the making of Orson Welles’ OTHELLO, we hear of some silent-era European émigré director whose English wasn’t too hot, shooting a Pola Negri romance, saying he wanted a “big head of Pola,” meaning a close-up. Welles’ cast and crew liked [...]
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Transpontine (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
56a Infoshop, at the Elephant and Castle, has a few events coming up over the next couple of weeks. As part of the ongoing Full Unemployment Cinema season, they are screening Rene Clair's 1931 film À nous la liberté on Sunday 19 th July at 5pm. According to IMDB it is a 'A famous left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom escaped jail and then worked his way up from...
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A Shaded View on Fashion (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Download Jpg couture Jean Paul Gaultier’s haut couture collection is one of the major creative events of the season that I lounge for. This year, L’Enfant Terrible who has grown into a multimillion euro empire was inspired by the divas...
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TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
French comedy charms, but wears out its welcome.
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Hans Bellmer... La Poupée or La Bouche (1936, printed 1949 or earlier, Hand-colored vintage gelatin silver print, 5 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches, Signed in white gouache on recto). From Ubu Gallery at Art│40│Basel . Works by Hans Arp, Julian Beck, Hans Bellmer, Étienne Béothy, Victor Brauner, Janusz Maria Brzeski, Claude Cahun, Paul Citroen, René Clair, Jean Crotti, Marcel...
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
The Ghost Goes West is a 1935 film directed by Rene Clair and starring Robert Donat , Jean Parker , Eugene Pallette , Elsa Lancaster and Hay Petrie . It's online at 56.com dubbed and without English subtitles: I can't find any other video online -no trailer, no clips. That's a shame. I saw this years ago and thought it was fun. Moria has a review. The New York Times gives it a mixed review but does...
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SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
So, Rene Clair thinks reality mingles with fantasy in our memories? I’ll show him. Snaps from my recent sojourn in le grande pomme. My local subway was the one from JACOB’S LADDER. I could relate to Tim Robbins in the sense that it’s one of those annoying stations where, if you venture onto the platform and [...]
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SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
This is René Clair’s introduction to Léon Barsacq’s Caligari’s Cabinet and Other Grand Illusions. It’s so lovely I wanted to share it. Barsacq’s sketch for René Clair’s LE SILENCE D’OR — an ancient movie studio recreated in a modern movie studio. Scenery? In the theater, scenery is normal, since the stage is surrounded by walls that...
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
Freedom for Us is the English title for À nous la liberté , a 1931 René Clair comedy film. Georges Auric did the music. Youtube has it online divided into 9 sections with embedding disabled. It is in French. There are English subtitles in every section except #8. Here are links to each segment: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7 , part 8 , part 9 The New...
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Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
''Paris 36'' (Richard Nilsen) A sentimental tale of love, gangsters and theater people trying to keep a failing music hall afloat in prewar Paris and a father trying to raise his son after his singer-wife leaves him, it borrows self-consciously from almost every notable French film from before the New Wave and every song by Piaf and Trenet. (PG-13 - 120 minutes) N,V.
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SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
Crumbs, I think RICH AND STRANGE might be the third Hitchcock film I’d be willing to call a masterpiece. THE LODGER is certainly flawed, but has a real zing to its expressionist set-pieces, and it’s so inspiring to see Hitchcock discovering what he’s fundamentally about. And BLACKMAIL has far greater unity and control, in both [...]
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