Tag: French Cinema
Around the World in 80 Films: Diabolique
Les diaboliques, released as Diabolique in the United States, and variously translated as The Devils or The Fiends, is a chilling psychological horror that still stands…
Around the World in 80 Films: Au Revoir Les Enfants
For my first film on the Around the World in 80 Films event, I decided to watch Louis Malle’s autobiographical Au Revoir Les Enfants, which I…
Pauline à la plage: Yet Another Alluring Éric Rohmer Love Lesson
Éric Rohmer’s third Comédies et proverbes from the 1980s is yet another masterful grasp of the human language of, and lessons in, love. Pauline à la…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Dah
“[Abbas] Kiarostami gave the Iranian cinema the international credibility that it has today. But his films were unfortunately not seen as much in Iran. He…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Ba
“Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Siedem
“You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn’t matter if you transport them to a world of intuition…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Sechs
“I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Besh
“If I had the body and the voice of an alpha male, it would be easier. It took nine years from leaving film school until…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Si
“When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, ‘Well, you know, that’s a staple…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Tria
“The heart-wrenching musical drama unfolds as (Costas) Ferris – a respected songwriter – uses the rembetiko as a source of pride amid the chaos. The…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Deux
“Abdellatif Kechiche is one of the greatest, most famous directors in France, and I love the trance-like feeling that you get with his cinema. I…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Uno
“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #33
Agnès Varda. A name synonymous with a film revolution still, astonishingly, under-recognized. A name that reminds us of rich, fluent, and oh-so varied cinema. Stayed…
Masterpiece Memo: Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear)
The Fifties, that squeaky-clean decade of that saw the birth of the suburbs, strict morality and, the McCarthy era, also had the misfortune to precede…
