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The French New Wave and the New Hollywood: Le Samourai and Its American Legacy
ACTA UNIV. SAPIENTIAE, FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES, 3 (2010) 109–120 The French New Wave and the New Hollywood: Le Samourai and its American legacy Jacqui Miller Liverpool Hope University (United Kingdom) E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. The French New Wave was an essentially pan-continental cinema. It was influenced both by American gangster films and French noirs, and in turn was one of the principal influences on the New Hollywood, or Hollywood renaissance, the uniquely creative period of American filmmaking running approximately from 1967–1980. This article will examine this cultural exchange and enduring cinematic legacy taking as its central intertext Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai (1967). Some consideration will be made of its precursors such as This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942) and Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959) but the main emphasis will be the references made to Le Samourai throughout the New Hollywood in films such as The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971), The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) and American Gigolo (Paul Schrader, 1980). The article will suggest that these films should not be analyzed as isolated texts but rather as composite elements within a super-text and that cross-referential study reveals the incremental layers of resonance each film’s reciprocity brings. This thesis will be explored through recurring themes such as surveillance and alienation expressed in parallel scenes, for example the subway chases in Le Samourai and The French Connection, and the protagonist’s apartment in Le Samourai, The Conversation and American Gigolo. A recent review of a Michael Moorcock novel described his work as “so rich, each work he produces forms part of a complex echo chamber, singing beautifully into both the past and future of his own mythologies” (Warner 2009). -
1,000 Films to See Before You Die Published in the Guardian, June 2007
1,000 Films to See Before You Die Published in The Guardian, June 2007 http://film.guardian.co.uk/1000films/0,,2108487,00.html Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) Prescient satire on news manipulation, with Kirk Douglas as a washed-up hack making the most of a story that falls into his lap. One of Wilder's nastiest, most cynical efforts, who can say he wasn't actually soft-pedalling? He certainly thought it was the best film he'd ever made. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac, 1994) A goofy detective turns town upside-down in search of a missing dolphin - any old plot would have done for oven-ready megastar Jim Carrey. A ski-jump hairdo, a zillion impersonations, making his bum "talk" - Ace Ventura showcases Jim Carrey's near-rapturous gifts for physical comedy long before he became encumbered by notions of serious acting. An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa, 1963) Prolific Japanese director Ichikawa scored a bulls-eye with this beautifully stylized potboiler that took its cues from traditional Kabuki theatre. It's all ballasted by a terrific double performance from Kazuo Hasegawa both as the female-impersonator who has sworn vengeance for the death of his parents, and the raucous thief who helps him. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995) Ferrara's comic-horror vision of modern urban vampires is an underrated masterpiece, full- throatedly bizarre and offensive. The vampire takes blood from the innocent mortal and creates another vampire, condemned to an eternity of addiction and despair. Ferrara's mob movie The Funeral, released at the same time, had a similar vision of violence and humiliation. -
The Queer History of Films and Filming by Justin Bengry
The Queer History of Films and Filming By Justin Bengry It would be hard to exaggerate the sense of repression that many queer men felt in 1950s Britain. Assailed by the press, stalked by the police and dispar- aged by the state, homosexuals experienced almost universal hostility. In 1952, for example, the Sunday Pictorial’s infamous ‘Evil Men’ series ridiculed queer men as “freaks” and “degenerates”; they were, the Pictorial warned, a potent threat to British society.1 In 1953 alone, sensational coverage of charges against Labour M.P. William Field for importuning, author Rupert Croft-Cooke for gross indecency and Shakespearean actor Sir John Gielgud for importuning in a Chelsea lavatory all highlighted the plight of homosexuals. More than any other case, however, the Lord Montagu affair of 1953-4 exposed the dangers posed to homosexuals in Britain. At its conclusion, Lord Montagu, his cousin Michael Pitt-Rivers and Daily Mail diplomatic correspondent Peter Wildeblood were all imprisoned. By 1954, the scandals, trials and social disruption had reached such a frenzy, that amid calls for state intervention, the government relented and called the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (The Wolfenden Committee) to evaluate the state of criminal law in Britain. That same year, Philip Dosse introduced Films and Filming. Long before homosexual activity between consenting men was decrimina- lised in Britain in 1967, Films and Filming subtly included articles and images, erotically charged commercial advertisements and same-sex contact ads that established its queer leanings. From its initial issues in 1954, the magazine sought Britain’s queer market segment by including articles on the censorship of homosexual themes in film and theatre, profiles and images of sexually ambigu- ous male actors like Dirk Bogarde and Rock Hudson and photo spreads selected specifically for their display of male flesh. -
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President : Gérard PILET General Delegate : Claude-Eric POIROUX Press department Paris André-Paul Ricci Angers 54, rue Beaubourg 6, place de la Madeleine 9, rue Claveau BP 82214 75003 PARIS 75008 Paris 49022 ANGERS Cedex 02 FRANCE FRANCE FRANCE Tel : 00 33 1 42 71 53 70 Tel : 00 33 1 49 53 04 20 Tel : 0 33 2 41 88 92 94 Fax : 00 33 1 42 71 01 11 Fax : 00 33 1 43 59 05 48 Fax : 00 33 2 41 87 65 83 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] w w w . p r e m i e r s p l a n s . o r g October 2009 PREMIERS PLANS FESTIVAL : 22nd EDITION Since 1989, the Premiers Plans Film Festival takes place each year in the city of Angers, France. In 2009 its competitive sections, programs and other events attracted some 65 000 filmgoers who discussed and shared their passion of cinema with young European directors and other professionals. Through the years, the Festival has become a major meeting of European cinematographic creation, as numerous directors such as Fatih Akin, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Joachim Lafosse, Matteo Garrone, Arnaud Desplechin, Xavier Beauvois, Nick Park, Cristi Puiu, Paolo Sorrentino and Thomas Vinterberg were originally discovered in Angers with the screening of their first films. Each year, the Official Selection presents a hundred of European first films divided in five competitive sections: European first feature films, European first short films, French first short films, student films, and European animated films, as well as two out of competition sections: free style and “next shot”. -
Cabin Fever: Free Films for Kids! The
January / February 2019 Canadian & International Features NEW WORLD DOCUMENTARIES special Events THE GREAT BUSTER CABIN FEVER: FREE FILMS FOR KIDS! www.winnipegcinematheque.com January 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 closed: New Year’s Day Roma / 7 pm Roma / 7 pm & 9:30 pm Roma / 7 pm & 9:30 pm Roma / 3 pm & 7 pm cabin fever: Coco 3D / 3 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 9:30 pm The Human Epoch / 5 pm Roma / 7 pm 8 9 10 11 12 13 The Last Movie / 7 pm Roma / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Black Lodge: Secret Cinema Roma / 2:30 pm cabin fever: The Big Bad Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Le samouraï / 7 pm with the Laundry Room / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Fox and Other Tales… / 3 pm Roma / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Léon Morin, Priest / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 7 pm Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 5 pm Roma / 9 pm The Human Epoch / 7:15 pm Genesis / 7 pm Genesis / 9 pm 15 16 17 18 19 20 The Last Movie / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Canada’s Top Ten: Jean-Pierre Melville: The Great Buster / 3 pm & 7 pm cabin fever: Buster Keaton’s Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Léon Morin, Priest / 7 pm Anthropocene: Le doulos / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Classic Shorts / 3 pm The Human Epoch / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: The Great Buster / 5 pm Roads in February / 9 pm Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 5 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: The Human Epoch / 9 pm Roads in February / 9 pm Le samouraï / 7 pm 22 23 24 25 26 27 The Last -
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville Cinéfilo compulsivo, miembro de la Resistencia durante la Ocupación de Francia, cineasta amateur, creador de sus propios estudios de cine, maestro de los realizadores de la Nouvelle Vague, director de una serie de policíacos inconfundibles, creador de un universo cinematográfico que le pertenece en exclusiva. Todas estas circunstancias marcaron el itinerario vital y sobre todo creativo de Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973). En 1946 Melville dirige el accidentado corto Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d`un clown, aunque su carrera alcanza su primer gran logro —de hecho, uno de los mayores de su obra— con su siguiente película, Le silence de la mer, que empieza a rodar en 1947, aunque solo puede estrenarla dos años después, debido a las muy difíciles condiciones en que la realiza. Tras Les enfants terribles, según Jean Cocteau, y Quand tu liras cette lettre (1953), a partir de un guion de Jacques Deval, tal vez menos personales pero poseedoras de un extraordinario interés, Melville filma su primer policíaco con Bob le flambeur (1955), género que le dará sus mayores éxitos e impondrá la imagen más perdurable de su obra, y que no abandonará hasta su última película, Crónica negra (Un flic), rodada en 1972, con la excepción de dos nuevas incursiones en el período de la Ocupación, Léon Morin, prêtre (1961) y El ejército de las sombras (L`armée des ombres, 1969) —si bien dos películas como Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959) y El guardaespaldas (L`Aîné des Ferchaux, 1963) solo se acercan al género de forma muy tangencial—. Son sin duda las películas de Melville que se pueden adscribir, aun con reservas, al género negro —que en Francia tendrá la denominación de polar— las que han dado mayor popularidad a su autor, y simultáneamente las que le han proporcionado mayor prestigio e influencia en cineastas posteriores, si bien no convendría olvidar que filmes como Le silence de la mer o El ejército de las sombras —ambientados en la época de la Ocupación de Francia por la Alemania nazi— se cuentan también entre sus mayores logros. -
La Notte (1961), and L’Eclisse (1962)
JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REVIEWS ISSN- 2394-5125 VOL 08, ISSUE 02, 2021 THE ARCHITECTUAL SOUL IN THE BODYOF MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI'S FILMS:SHORTREVIEWONHISTRILOGY: L’AVVENTURA (1960), LA NOTTE (1961), AND L’ECLISSE (1962) GELAREH HAJMOUSA Affiliation Faculty of literature and Philosophy, Sapienza university of Rome, Italy Address: Via dei Volsci, 122, 00185 Roma RM Email: [email protected] Phone: 00393511926186 Abstract In realistic films, the architecture of the cinematic exploitation can be seen. In this regard Antonioni's films has an exceptional place. His films point and desire to create a cinematic experience through the use of filming techniques due to the interplay between architecture and the characters. Antonioni, in his films, uses architecture to depict the mental state of the characters, or perhaps as an arena for closure their logical inconsistencies and contrary qualities.Three films: The adventure (L’Avventura, 1960),The night (La Notte, 1961),and The eclipse(L’Eclisse, 1962) are closely related to the concept and text and are known as the trilogy of the Antonioni. In all of these films, director tries to link the process of emotional development of characters to their position in the film.The emphasis on urban-industrial texture, the unusual story structure, the minimal role of dialogue, and in particular the movements of the camera, which follow the unique methods of cinematic expression, all appear in his work.The Antonionitrilogy are an example of a series of films that are suited to study the purpose of any study on a serious approach to the question of the relationship between two types of substances and artistic creatures. -
February 26, 2019 (XXXVIII:5) Jean-Luc Godard: BREATHLESS/À BOUT DE SOUFFLE (1960, 90 Min.)
February 26, 2019 (XXXVIII:5) Jean-Luc Godard: BREATHLESS/À BOUT DE SOUFFLE (1960, 90 min.) DIRECTED BY Jean-Luc Godard WRITING François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol (original scenario), Jean-Luc Godard (screenplay) PRODUCER Georges de Beauregard MUSIC Martial Solal CINEMATOGRAPHY Raoul Coutard FILM EDITING Cécile Decugis CAST Jean Seberg...Patricia Franchini Jean-Paul Belmondo...Michel Poiccard / Laszlo Kovacs Daniel Boulanger...Police Inspector Vital Henri-Jacques Huet...Antonio Berrutti Roger Hanin...Carl Zubart Van Doude...Himself Claude Mansard...Claudius Mansard play of shot-reverse shot' used in many Hollywood productions” Liliane Dreyfus...Liliane / Minouche (as Liliane David) (NewWaveFilm.com). In the article, Godard “praised the use of Michel Fabre...Police Inspector #2 shot-reverse shot as crucial to conveying a character’s mental Jean-Pierre Melville...Parvulesco the Writer point of view and their inner life.” In 1956, after returning to Jean-Luc Godard...The Snitch Paris from Switzerland and making his first two films, Godard Richard Balducci...Tolmatchoff returned to find that Cahiers du cinema, led by Francois Truffaut, André S. Labarthe...Journalist at Orly had become the leading film publication in France. Godard François Moreuil...Journalist at Orly would once again join the fray of French film enthusiasts championing the techniques of Hollywood auteurs like JEAN-LUC GODARD (b. December 3, 1930 in Paris, France) Hitchcock and Hawks, contributing articles “on some of his once said “All great fiction films tend toward documentary, just favorite auteurs such as Otto Preminger and Nicholas Ray” and as all great documentaries tend toward fiction.” Godard began his continuing “his theoretical debate with André Bazin” who film career with a short, which he directed, wrote, edited, acted “continued to commend the long take for its approximation to in, and did cinematography for. -
Belmondo Tome 1.Wps
Jean-Paul est né à Neuilly-sur-Seine, le 9 avril 1933. Il est issu d'une famille d'artiste; son père, Paul Belmondo est d'origine sicilienne. C’est un sculpteur réputé et sa mère est artiste-peintre. Il fréquenta plusieurs écoles Parisienne mais n'y resta jamais longtemps car Jean-Paul 1 est plutôt agitateur. Jean-Paul est un passionné de boxe et se rend également à l'"Avia-Club", un gymnase où il rencontre le boxeur Maurice Auzel futur champion de France. A partir de 1964, Jean-Paul Belmondo rencontre un grand succès avec plusieurs films de tous genres : l'aventure avec "100 000 dollars au soleil", "L'homme de Rio", la fantaisie avec "Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine", "Pierrot le fou", l'action avec "Borsalino", le drame "Week- end à Zuydcoote"... Jean-Paul Belmondo commente: "Je ne vis 2 que pour jouer et continuer à jouer quand je vis. Ce que j'apprécie le plus dans ma gloire, c'est la possibilité de pouvoir jouer ce que je veux. Je suis fier d'être une vedette populaire, comme l'étaient avant- guerre Aimos, Carette et... Gabin. Si dans dix ans, j'ai disparu du podium, j'espère que certains de mes films passeront dans les cinémathèques et que l'on dira de moi : il a fait une belle carrière". Jean-Paul Belmondo marqua donc les années 60 avec un succès fou et de nombreux film à son actif. 3 Belmondo époque Godard : Jean-Luc Godard est un cinéaste franco- suisse, né le 3 décembre 1930 à Paris. -
Movie Museum MARCH 2013 COMING ATTRACTIONS
Movie Museum MARCH 2013 COMING ATTRACTIONS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY 2 Hawaii Premieres! 2 Hawaii Premieres! THE INTOUCHABLES SHIRLEY VALENTINE THE INTOUCHABLES MA PETITE MONSIEUR GANGSTER (2011-France) (1989-UK/US) (2011-France) ENTREPRISE aka Les tontons flingueurs in French with English with Pauline Collins, Tom in French with English (1999-France) (1963-France/WGermany/Italy) subtitles & in widescreen Conti, Julia McKenzie, subtitles & in widescreen French w/Eng subtitles, w.s. French w/Eng subtitles, w.s. with François Cluzet, Omar Alison Steadman. Vincent Lindon, Roschdy Zem. Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier. Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey 12, 6 & 8pm only with François Cluzet, Omar 12:00 & 8:30pm only 12:00, 6:30 & 8:30pm only Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet. ---------------------------------- Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Hawaii Premiere! Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet. THE POOL MA PETITE Written and Directed by THE ITALIAN KEY (2007-US) ENTREPRISE Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano (2011-Finland/US/Italy/UK) Written and Directed by Hindi w/Eng subtitles, w.s. (1999-France) in English in widescreen Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano with Venkatesh Chavan. French w/Eng subtitles, w.s. 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 with Gwendolyn Anslow. Directed by Chris Smith. Vincent Lindon, Roschdy Zem. & 7:30pm 2 & 4pm only 12, 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 1:30, 3:15, 5 & 6:45pm 7 8 9 10 2, 3:30 & 5pm only 11 Hawaii Premiere! LIFE OF PI Hawaii Premiere! LIFE OF PI St. Patrick's Day LE MAGNIFIQUE MICKYBO AND ME LE CASSE (2012-US/Taiwan) (2012-US/Taiwan) aka The Burglars (1973-France/Italy) (2004-UK) in widescreen French w/Eng subtitles, w.s. -
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MoMA CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF RIALTO PICTURES WITH 17-FILM RETROSPECTIVE Series by Leading Distributor of Classic Repertory Cinema Spotlights Some of the Finest Filmmaking Talents Such as Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Jean- Luc Godard, and Jean-Pierre Melville Rialto Pictures: Reviving Classic Cinema July 25–August 10, 2007 The Roy and Niuta Titus 1 and 2 Theaters NEW YORK, June 26, 2007—Celebrating a decade of titles issued by Rialto Pictures, The Museum of Modern Art presents a 17-film survey from the distributor’s catalogue of extraordinary cinema. Rialto Pictures: Reviving Classic Cinema, presented July 25 through August 10, 2007, in The Roy and Niuta Titus 1 and 2 theaters, includes some of the most acclaimed films produced over the past six decades. These classics of cinema include Jules Dassin’s stylish and taut heist film Rififi (1955), Carol Reed’s memorable film noir thriller The Third Man (1949), and Jean-Pierre Melville’s powerful depiction of French Resistance fighters in L’armée des ombres (Army of Shadows, 1969), which was released in the United States for the first time in 2006, to wide critical acclaim. The exhibition is organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. In 1997, film programmer and curator Bruce Goldstein established Rialto Pictures, a company dedicated to invigorating classic cinema by ensuring that it continued to be viewed, as originally intended, on the big screen. Since then Goldstein, in conjunction with his partner Adrienne Halpern, has released almost 40 fresh, and often restored, 35mm prints of classic foreign films with new English subtitles not seen in theaters since their original runs, and has premiered films never before distributed in America. -
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A film festival for everyone! FESTIVAL 12/20 OCTOBER 2019 – LYON, FRANCE Francis Ford Coppola Lumière Award 2019 © Christian Simonpietri / Getty Images th GUESTS OF HONOR Frances McDormand anniversary10 Daniel Auteuil Bong Joon-ho Donald Sutherland Marco Bellocchio Marina Vlady Gael García Bernal | 3 10th anniversary! 2019. A decade ago, the Lumière festival presented the first Lumière Award to Clint Eastwood in Lyon, the birthplace of the Lumière Cinematograph. As the festival continues to flourish (185,000 moviegoers attended last year), we look forward to commemorating the last ten years. Today, passion for classic cinema is stronger than ever and Lyon never ceases to celebrate the memory of films, movie theaters and audiences. Lumière 2019 will be rich in events. Guests of honor will descend on Lyon from all over the world; Frances McDormand, Daniel Auteuil, Bong Joon-ho, Donald Sutherland, Marco Bellocchio, Marina Vlady and Gael Garcia Bernal will evoke their cinema and their love of films. Retrospectives, tributes, film-concerts, exhibitions, master classes, cinema Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola all-nighters, screenings for families and children, a DVD market, a cinema bookstore, the Cinema Fair... a myriad of opportunities to enjoy and cherish heritage works together. THE PROGRAM For this 10th anniversary, the Lumière festival has created Lumière Classics, a section that presents the finest restored films of the year, put forward by archives, RETROSPECTIVES producers, rights holders, distributors, studios and film libraries. The new label focuses on supporting selected French and international films. Francis Ford Coppola: Lumière Award 2019 of crazy freedom. The films broach sex, miscegenation, homosexuality; they feature gangsters and femme A filmmaker of rare genius, fulfilling an extraordinary fatales, embodied by Mae West, Joan Crawford and Also new, the International Classic Film Market Village will hold a DVD Publishers’ destiny, auteur of some of the greatest successes and th Barbara Stanwyck… Directors like William A.