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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)

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The plot of a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers is typically a thread on which the gems (the songs and dances) are strung, and Swing Time is no ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Summer With Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)

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This early Bergman film, coming before the trifecta of Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), and Wild Strawberries ...

Mon Oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)

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The title of Claude Jutra's richly textured film seems to promise a coming-of-age story, which is what, eventually, it delivers. But f...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Masques (Claude Chabrol, 1987)

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Masques shares the style (and the one-word title) of those 1960s romantic thrillers like Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963), Arabesque (Stan...
Monday, December 28, 2015

La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)

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Valentin Merlet, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, and Jean-Pierre Cassel in La Cérémonie Jeanne : Isabelle Huppert Sophie : Sandr...

Story of Women (Claude Chabrol, 1988)

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"Women's business," according to the subtitle, is what Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert) tells her husband (François Cluzet) i...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol, 1958)

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Le Beau Serge has been called the first film of the French New Wave because it was made before the first features by Claude Chabrol's...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol, 1959)

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Chekhov's gun plays a major role in Les Cousins , heightening the suspense about who will use it on whom. But the film isn't a su...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)

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What do Sweet Smell of Success , His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940), Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941), and The Searchers...

Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953)

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Niagara was one of three movies starring Marilyn Monroe that were released in 1953. The other two, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawk...