Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir, Translated by Sandra Smith

This is a candid and gorgeous portrait of an intimate relationship between two young women at the height of stepping … More

#189 The Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis) (1945)

The history of Children of Paradise, considered to be one of the (if not the) greatest French Films of all time, … More

#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