Showing posts with label renoir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label renoir. Show all posts
Friday, August 28, 2020

TONI - #1040

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Toni is the 1935 drama from revered French director Jean Renoir. By his own admission (as seen in the intro included on this disc), Toni w...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

COLUMBIA NOIR: MURDER BY CONTRACT/HUMAN DESIRE/DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD/NIGHTFALL - CRITERION CHANNEL

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I am continuing to work my way through the Criterion Channel’s “Columbia Noir” bundle, a collection of crime and melodrama spanning thre...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

THE MARSEILLE TRILOGY: CESAR - #884

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Though only made a few years after its predecessors, César moves The Marseille Trilogy forward nearly twenty years. Marcel Pagnol take...
Friday, July 21, 2017

LA MARSEILLAISE - FILMSTRUCK

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Originally written for the Jean Renoir's Collector's Edition released in 2007. Read the full review of that collection here . ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

THREE SILENT FILMS BY JEAN RENOIR ON FILMSTRUCK

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The below reviews were originally written for the Jean Renoir's Collector's Edition released in 2007. Read the full review of that c...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

LA CHIENNE - #818

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Jean Renoir had made nine films before he made his first sound picture, the 1931 comedy On purge bébé ( Baby’s Laxative ). His second, ...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY - #746

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After watching Lonesome last week , it seemed only fitting to chase Paul Fejos’ sublime tale of two lovers meeting on a day trip to Con...
Monday, April 1, 2013

SIDELINE: MORE REVIEWS FOR 3/13

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The non-Criterion movies I saw last month... IN THEATRES... *  Spring Breakers , Harmony Korine's hotly debated, inconsistent subv...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1964) - #117

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Revisiting Jean Renoir’s 1946 version of Diary of a Chambermaid compelled me to dust of Luis Buñuel’s 1964 remake, as well. As I noted ...