Henri-Georges Clouzot
David HudsonA retrospective is on at MoMA through Christmas Eve and at the Harvard Film Archive through December 18.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
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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
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NYFF 09: “L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot” (Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea, USA)
Fernando F. Croce“Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?” asks the sensualist next door in the Coens’ A Serious Man. Henri-Georges Clouzot did. Inflamed by the success of 8½, the French veteran set out in 1964 to
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The Auteurs Daily: Telluride, Toronto and NYFF. L'Enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot
David HudsonWhere to begin. Perhaps with Scott Foundas's introduction to "Serge Bromberg, who began fervently collecting films at age nine, and today, four decades later, might best be described as an
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Capital, it fails us now: "The Wages Of Fear" in the post-imperial age
Glenn KennyOut of town; my work takes me out of town. I empty villages. I burn their houses down. I set up factories. Lay out plantations And bring prosperity to the poorer nations. —Art Bears, "The Song