Jean-Pierre Melville, 1961, France/Italy, 35mm 116m Longtime assistant director Beineix’s debut was an international arthouse sensation, nabbing four French César awards (including Best Film) and single-handedly launching the punk-inspired cinéma du look movement, whose subsequent exponents included Leos Carax and the young Luc Besson.īased on a novel by Arthur La Bern, the film begins as the story of a former barmaid, Rose Sandigate (Googie Withers), who offers safe haven to her former lover, the escaped felon Tommy Swann (John McCallum) on the run from the police, in Hamer’s intense, masterful panorama of East End life in postwar London. Special-delivery postman Jules finds himself on the run all across Paris, hotly pursued by a hit squad, ruthless Taiwanese music pirates, and the police after making a pirated recording of a legendary opera singer in director Beineix’s outrageously stylized ‘80s thriller. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981, France, 35mm 117m A fallback project for Buñuel after the Spanish government nixed his first attempt at Tristana, the material proved fertile for his wild imagination, and teamed him for the first time with producer Serge Silberman and Carrière, collaborators he would continue to work with for the rest of his career. We’re clearly in the world of Buñuel, though the director and co-screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (who also cameos as a priest) take significantly greater liberties with Octave Mirbeau’s satiric 1900 novel than the 1946 Hollywood version directed by Jean Renoir. Parisian femme de chambre Céléstine (Jeanne Moreau) arrives for her new post at a provincial manor and discovers a cast of variously corrupt and perverse eccentrics lurking inside. Petty crook Belmondo is on the run, with American expat Seberg in tow in Godard’s legendary debut feature, restored for its 50th anniversary complete with freshly revised subtitles.ĭiary of a Chambermaid/Le journal d’une femme de chambre The film (along with Truffaut’s The 400 Blows) that gave rise to the French New Wave tsunami, making Jean-Paul Belmondo a star and morphing the face of an affectless American blonde gamine–Jean Seberg–into that of a heartless noir femme fatale.
One of the rare comedies to emerge from the “kitchen sink” realism of the 1960s Brit New Wave, this alternately hilarious and mortifying (sometimes both at once) romp has been hailed by critics as one of the greatest British films ever made. Tom Courtney and Julie Christie shot to international stardom as a feckless aspiring writer and one of his myriad lady loves in Schlesinger’s dazzling comic fantasy.
The result is a brilliant and relentless thriller, painted in Melville’s trademark shades of charcoal and midnight blue, marked by daring escapes, unimaginable moments of self-sacrifice and unconscionable acts of betrayal. Stars Lino Ventura (as the brave civil engineer Philippe Gerbier) and Paul Meurisse (as organization head Luc Jardie). The great French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s (Le Samourai, Le Cercle Rouge) 1969 adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s novel, about a band of French Resistance fighters during World War II. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, France/Italy, 35mm 140m Good luck! Update: The box set has been won but we still have tickets for “ Billy Liar,” “ Breathless,” “ Diary Of A Chambermaid,” “ It Always Rains On Sunday,” “ The Third Man,” “ The Two Of Us” and “ Went The Day Well?“
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Tim Robbins: Society Just Wants 'Art to Die' Amid COVID-19 Vaccine RequirementsĢ4 Famously Queer and Homoerotic Horror Movies, from 'Psycho' to 'Hellraiser'Įmail us with your full name, address and which screening you’d like to attend along with the answer to this question: Who directed the 1983 remake of “Breathless” and who was the female lead?Ĭontest open to residents of New York City only. Henry Cavill Exits 'The Witcher,' Replaced by Liam Hemsworth in Season 4 But even if you don’t win that, we also have a pair of tickets for each screening of the series. This amazing collection is a cinephile’s dream, and the 10 disc set features many of the flims feature in the “15 For 15” series. Courtesy of Film Society Of Lincoln Center, we’ve got a copy of the excellent Rialto DVD Box Set for one lucky reader.
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