Movie Poster of the Week: “20,000 Years in Sing Sing” and Title-Centric Posters through the Ages
Adrian CurryA look at posters in which actors are absent and the title treatment is king.
Julien Duvivier
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The Forgotten: Dashing Through the Snow
David CairnsVictor Sjöström’s supernatural drama gets an extravagant make-over from Julien Duvivier.
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2012 #2
Ehsan KhoshbakhtFrom a festival of old films restored and rediscovered, works by Raoul Walsh, Ivan Pyr’ev, Jean Grémillon and Jacques Demy.
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Daily Briefing. Straub-Huillet and More on DVD and Blu-ray
David HudsonAlso: Elizabeth Taylor, accidental feminist? And John Malkovich revisits Les liaisons dangereuses.
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The Forgotten: The Importance of Being Ernst
David CairnsThe Woman with a Hundred Heads (1968) is a twenty-minute short directed by Eric Duvivier, nephew of the more famous Julien. It's based, closely, on one of Max Ernst's books, a surrealist text joined
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Tuesday Morning Foreign DVD Report: "Au bonheur des dames" (Duvivier, 1930)
Glenn KennyGoing by the sort of things that exemplary archivists Lobster Films and its American kind-of-partner Flicker Alley, as well as some other concerns, have been releasing on DVD in recent years, one gets
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The Forgotten: Lost Patrol
David CairnsNew York's Museum of Modern Art continues its Julien Duvivier retrospective all through May, bringing to light dozens of dazzling films from this neglected master. La Bandera (1935) is a relatively modest
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The Forgotten: Carrot-top
David CairnsJulien Duvivier's films, currently being retrospected at New York's Museum of Modern Art, form such a rich, neglected body of work, that seeing several at a time is like turning a familiar street corner
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The Forgotten: Youth and Beauty
David CairnsTHE WANDERING JULIEN During his American phase, exiled from France in the occupation, the great Julien Duvivier made an anthology film called Flesh and Fantasy (he seems to have had a particular affinity