The Forgotten: The Lodger
David CairnsIn Clouzot’s first film, a detective and his girlfriend go undercover in a lodging house to catch a serial murderer.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Movie Poster of the Week: Billy Wilder’s “Love in the Afternoon” and the Posters of Wojciech Fangor
Adrian CurryThe 1950s movie posters of one of Poland’s greatest artists, now aged 90.
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Forgotten Gialli: Battle of the Sexies
David CairnsThe sexual cold war just heated up.
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Movie Poster of the Week: Jean Grémillon’s “Remorques” and the Posters of the French Old Wave
Adrian CurryA look at some of the best original French posters for the films in Film Forum’s current series: The French Old Wave.
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"Something's Rotten in the State of Denmark": Motherland, Occupation and Resistance in "Lumière d’été"
Ehsan KhoshbakhtA look at Jean Grémillon’s 1943 masterpiece: its story, reception, and allegories of nation and society.
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
David HudsonA retrospective is on at MoMA through Christmas Eve and at the Harvard Film Archive through December 18.
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Daily Briefing. Kehr on Griffith, Harvey on Curt McDowell
David HudsonAlso: See It Big! in New York, Clouzot at Harvard, Mapplethorpe in Paris and Jeunet’s next project.
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Daily Briefing. Weekend of Doom
David HudsonAlso: News on upcoming projects from Scorsese, Jonze, the Coens and the Wachowskis.
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"Araya," "Pale Flower" and More DVDs
David Hudson"Margot Benacerraf, now in her 80s, only ever made one feature-length film," begins Josef Braun, "but that film remains so extraordinary, so very nearly singular, that it merits an admiration on par
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"Valhalla Rising," "Clouzot's Inferno," "The Borrowers," More
David HudsonOn Friday, Inception pretty much sucked all the air out of the media bubble. So, to catch up with what's being said about the other films opening this weekend... "After the increasingly black comic
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Ways of Love, or the Best Films that Didn't Appear on Other "Ten Best" Lists...
Manny FarberIn “Ways of Love” three vignettes directed by three top film makers add up to the year’s best foreign release. Marcel Pagnol’s “Jofroi” is about a senile farmer (Vincent Scotto) who shams suicide
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The Forgotten: Chains of Love
David CairnsWith the fragments of Henri-Georges Clouzot's never-completed L'enfer (1964) finally gathered together and released as part of the making-of/unmaking-of documentary Inferno (2009), now seems a good time