The history of Children of Paradise, considered to be one of the (if not the) greatest French Films of all time, … More
Tag: French
#885 Man Bites Dog (C’est arrivé près de chez vous / It Happened in Your Neighborhood) (1992)
With a $33,000 budget (or as the creators in the Criterion interviews indicate, zero budget that they supplemented by asking … More
#4 Les Vampires (1915)
Les Vampires is a ten-part French serial that, clocking in at 440 minutes total, took me about 20 nights to … More
#484 Week End (1967)
Week End is easily the most bizarre of Jean-Luc Godard’s films. A strange satire rife with paint-blood contrasted with striking … More
#351 Mon Oncle (1958)
Mon Oncle is Jaques Tati’s direct “satire against the mania for mechanization that threatens those easygoing old ways of life” … More
#483 Young Girls of Rochefort (Les demoiselles de Rochefort) (1967)
The Young Girls of Rochefort is Jaques Demy’s follow-up to his moving and absolutely stunning The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (one … More
#373 Breathless (À bout de Souffle)(1960)
Breathless is a stunning film. Shot from the hip on a tiny budget and hardly planned prior to the day’s … More
#485 Le Samouraï (1967)
Le Samouraï is a gorgeous film that is almost definitively 1960s New Wave cinema. In the film, we follow Jef … More
#43 La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928)
Considered in many circles to not only be the greatest Joan of Arc film ever made but one of the … More
#66 Vampyr (1932)
A man arrives at an inn. He is brought into a spooky, terrifying world that he didn’t expect. We discover the … More
