New Stuff: L'homme qui aimait les femmes

 

New Stuff: Deux de la Vague

 

The Movies I Watched in March

A.I. Rising 2018  7/10

L'art du crime, season 1 2017  6/10

Bad News Bears 2005  6/10 

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms 1953  6/10

Benedetta 2021  6/10 

The Big Bang Theory 2007-2019  8/10

 

Dai-Nihonjin 2007  6/10

Dersu Uzala 1975  8/10

Fractured 2019  6/10

Fright Night 1985  5/10 

Gretel & Hansel 2020  7/10

L'homme qui aimait les femmes 1977 6/10

House of Gucci 2021  7/10

 

Mijn beste vriendin Anne Frank 2021  6/10

Of Human Bondage 1934  7/10

 

Nightmare Alley 2021  7/10 

Pig 2021  7/10

 

Pleasure 2021  6/10

Le pornographe 2001  6/10

Price Wars 2021 5/10

A Reflection of Fear 1972  6/10 

Rim of the World 2019 6/10

Rocketship X-M 1950  6/10

Seijû gakuen 1974  7/10

Seventh Heaven 1937  7/10

 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake 1942  7/10

 

Song of the South 1946  6/10

Them! 1954  6/10 

Underwater 2020  6/10

The Weekend Away 2022 5/10

Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us 2005  7/10

 

 West Side Story 2021 6/10

 

The Movies I Watched in February

Cléo de 5 à 7 1962 7/10

 

Edge of Doom 1950  6/10

L'été meurtrier 1983 6/10 

Forbidden Planet 1956 8/10

Game of Thrones 2011-2019  6/10 

The Glass Wall 1953  6/10 

Gummo 1997 6/10

Homicide 1991  7/10

The Invisible Boy 1957  5/10

Last Night in Soho 2021  7/10

 

Love Affair 1939  6/10

The Monster of Piedras Blancas 1959  5/10 

Schitt's Creek 2015-2020  7/10

Shichinin no samurai 1954  10/10

 

Shock 1946  6/10

This Filthy World 2006  6/10

Titane 2021  6/10

Untouchable 2019  7/10

The Movies I Watched in November

The Amazing Mr. X 1948  6 

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud 1958  7

 Bigger Than Life 1956  7

 

Carne 1991  7

 

The Current War 2017  6

D.O.A. 1949  7

Day of the Outlaw 1959  7

 

Deux de la Vague 2010  7

Exhibit A 2019  5

The French Dispatch 2021  6 

The Guilty 2021  7

 Hanyo 2010  7

 He Walked by Night 1948  7

 

I Wake Up Screaming 1941  7

 The Invisible Man 2020  7

 

Jack the Ripper 2016  5 

The Killers 1946  8

 

Leave Her to Heaven 1945  7 

 

A Letter to Three Wives 1949  6

Love & Friendship 2016  7  

Maid 2021  8

Meet Me in St. Louis 1944  8

Der Nachtmahr 2015  7

 Passing 2021  7

 

Play it Again, Sam 1972  6

Rear Window 1954  8 

Top Hat 1935  6

Tormented 1960  5

New Stuff: Francois Truffaut

La sirène du Mississipi (1969)

A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.

Offbeat Noir thriller treated more like a l'amour fou romance with some typical Truffaut touches, occasionally a bit heavy-handed and with some risible dialogue.

On rewatching: Lively drama omits the novel's noir elements and turns the story into an almost surreal romance;the director and his two stars somehow make it work.

Halliwell*: "Oddly obsessive romantic murder mystery; the hero continues to love the girl who tries to kill him, and at the end they are still together. Interesting when it is not uncomfortable."

Maltin***: "One of the director's few flops, but any film with Belmondo-Deneuve-Truffaut combo is of interest...Always buy brand names."

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)

Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.

This documentary provides not much new about the famous book and the two directors, but you'll find more insight from the invited guest directors.

New Stuff: Hitchcock/Truffaut

Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)

A washed-up classical pianist bottoms out after his wife's suicide — stroking the keys in a Parisian bar and, when his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, he inadvertently gets dragged into the chaos and is forced to rejoin the family he once fled.

Wonderfully playful and at times surreal and absurdist take on Film Noir that enthuses by its esprit and sheer joy of taking a plot wherever it may go.

Halliwell*: "Fair copy of an American film noir, not especially interesting except for its sharp observation."

Maltin****: "Atmospheric early Truffaut gem...This film, more than any other, reflects the influence of Hollywood low-budget melodramas on Truffaut and his cinematic style."

Antoine et Colette (1962)

After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen year old Antoine Doinel, having been provided opportunity to get out of that delinquent life, is now an upstanding member of society working for Philips Records, which allows him to indulge in his love of music.

Truffaut's contribution to the omnibus film L'amour à vingt ans is Truffaut's first congenial continuation of his Doinel saga and manages to tell a gripping story of love forlorn in half an hour.

La sirène du Mississipi (1969)

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Das Geheimnis der falschen Braut West Germany
Francois Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid Australia
Mississippi Mermaid USA




The owner of a tobacco plantation sends away for a mail-order bride, who turns out to be a beautiful, but mysterious woman.

Offbeat noir thriller treated more like a l'amour fou romance with some typical Truffaut touches, occasionally a bit heavy-handed and with some risible dialogue.