2016-03-19 18:53
This is my translation of the entry for Jean Genet from Le Dictionnaire Truffaut edited by Antoine de Baecque and Arnaud Guigue. Noel Herpe provided this entry and it appears on pages 178-1… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Recently published in France, Claude Chabrol, Par lui-même et par les siens collects interviews given by Chabrol to journalist Michel Pascal in the last year of his life along with int… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
As Criterion prepares to release its Eclipse box-set "Presenting Sacha Guitry", I thought I might share this quote from François Truffaut’s (writing as Robert Lachenay) review o… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This is a translation of the forward published for the "10 Best Films of the Year" for the year 1956, published in the January 1957 issue of Cahiers du Cinema.The publications of these li… Read More
2011-04-22 14:14
Recently published in France, Claude Chabrol, Par lui-même et par les siens collects interviews given by Chabrol to journalist Michel Pascal in the last year of his life along with int… Read More
2010-06-11 01:41
In 1957, in preparation for an event at the Brussels World Fair of 1958 called the "Confrontation of the Best Films in the World", the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique sent out… Read More
2010-03-03 01:15
In 1955, Cahiers du Cinema printed 54 film reviews covering 51 films. Two of the films reviewed -- Rebecca and Hallelujah -- were vintage Hollywood productions. All but one of these reviews… Read More
2009-03-16 01:37
Compiling the post on Joseph Mankiewicz and Cahiers du Cinema, I became intrigued that nearly every reviewer of a Mankiewicz film in the decade 1955-1965 went on to place the film on their 1… Read More
2009-01-28 15:00
Jean-Luc Godard's film career was launch in June 1950 when he published his first review - a critique of Joseph L Mankiewicz's Dragonwyck - in the second issue of Eric Rohmer's Gazette du C… Read More
2008-12-22 02:56
This is a compendium of the views and reviews of the films of Jerry Lewis as published in Cahiers du Cinema between 1954 and 1968.Scared Stiff (Fais-moi peur [Frighten Me]) (George Marshall)… Read More
2008-10-29 00:17
Watching the fifth season of the TV series The Wire on DVD with the French subtitles turned on, this translation interested me: At 9:45 in episode 3,Jimmy McNulty says, "Well, maybe they… Read More
2008-09-25 01:36
This is translated from a eulogy for Manny Farber which was published in Serge Toubiana's blog. Jean-Pierre Gorin taught Cinema at University of California at San Diego with Manny Farber.I s… Read More
2008-09-16 15:18
This is the conclusion written by Pierre Billard for the feature "40 less than 40" concerning young French filmmakers which appeared in the February 1958 issue of Cinema '58. This article is… Read More
2008-09-08 16:06
In Pierre Billard's article "40 less than 40" in the February 1958 issue of Cinema '58, the editors asked 11 directors to respond to 8 questions. One of those 11 was Agnès Varda. (Str… Read More
2008-09-06 21:34
In the French news-weekly L'Express in 1957, Françoise Giroud introduced the term "new wave" to designate the emerging generation in France. In February 1958, Pierre Billard in an art… Read More
2008-08-12 15:18
François Truffaut review of the film Sudden Fear in the March 1953 issue of Cahiers du Cinema marked his first appearance in that revue. For the June 1953 of Cahiers, Truffaut wrote a… Read More
2008-08-04 18:19
This is a translation of a review of Jean Quéval's Jacques Prévert written Eric Rohmer that was published in Cahiers du Cinema for December 1956. Only half of this book concer… Read More
2008-07-25 22:54
Film critic and director Luc Moullet was first published by Cahiers du Cinema in April 1956 when he was still only 18 years old. The on-line archives at the magazinessite (which still does n… Read More
2008-05-09 14:57
Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was one of the premier scenarist of the "Golden Age of Television" in the early 1950s. When the screen version of his 1953 teleplay, Marty, won the Academy awa… Read More
2008-04-21 02:25
This post which continues from English Films French Critics 1959 is the last installment English Films French Critics series. January 1960Horrors of the Black Museum, I was Monty's Double… Read More
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