Saturday, August 06, 2011

Francois Truffaut and Jean Genet

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This is my translation of the entry for Jean Genet from Le Dictionnaire Truffaut edited by Antoine de Baecque and Arnaud Guigue. Noel Her...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Translation of a review of "Claude Chabrol, Par lui-même et par les siens" by Serge Toubiana

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Recently published in France, Claude Chabrol, Par lui-même et par les siens collects interviews given by Chabrol to journalist Michel Pasca...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Truffaut "presents" Sacha Guitry

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As Criterion prepares to release its Eclipse box-set "Presenting Sacha Guitry", I thought I might share this quote from François T...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Prelude to a 10 best films list: Cahiers January 1957

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This is a translation of the forward published for the "10 Best Films of the Year" for the year 1956, published in the January 19...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Cahiers du Cinema 12 best films of all-time from 1958

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In 1957, in preparation for an event at the Brussels World Fair of 1958 called the "Confrontation of the Best Films in the World",...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

1955 Best Films and Reviews Cahiers du Cinema

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In 1955, Cahiers du Cinema printed 54 film reviews covering 51 films. Two of the films reviewed -- Rebecca and Hallelujah -- were vintage H...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

1954 Best Films and Reviews Cahiers du Cinema

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Compiling the post on Joseph Mankiewicz and Cahiers du Cinema , I became intrigued that nearly every reviewer of a Mankiewicz film in the de...
Monday, March 09, 2009

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From the review of Bob the Gambler published by Cahiers du Cinema in October 1956 and signed Jean-Yves Goute. (page 56, my translation) ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Cahiers du Cinema and Joseph Mankiewicz 1953-1964

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Jean-Luc Godard's film career was launch in June 1950 when he published his first review - a critique of Joseph L Mankiewicz's Drag...