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.
Marcel Carné
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Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2012
David HudsonThis year’s edition includes Rendez-Vous +, “a potpourri of recent French documentaries and rarely screened classics.”
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UK. Marcel Carné's "Les Enfants du Paradis"
David HudsonThe French classic, now restored, returns to London.
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Senses of Cinema 59, Scope 20 and More
David HudsonSenses of Cinema editor Rolando Caputo introduces the new issue: "For some time now, Senses has wanted to publish an English language translation of Jean-Baptiste Thoret's seminal article, 'The Seventies
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The Forgotten: Boulevard of Crime
David CairnsCrime thrillers seem to require two things: an air of realism, and an expressive power. The balance can vary wildly. Marcel Carné's interesting, uneven Les assassins de l'ordre (1971) has a very good
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Images of the day. From Sketch to the Screen: "Hôtel du Nord" (1938)
Ehsan KhoshbakhtAbove: Alexandre Trauner's sketch for Canal Saint-Martin and Hotel (second building from right). Besides classical Hollywood, one of the other periods of film history in which studio production design
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The Forgotten: Sunday, Lovely Sunday
David CairnsI wouldn't have been altogether surprised if Marcel Carné's first film, a short documentary from 1929 called Nogent, eldorado du dimanche (Nogent, Eldorado of Sunday) had not been particularly interesting
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "L'air de Paris" (Carné, 1954)
Glenn Kenny"For convinced auteurists, Jacques Prévert comes as something of a stumbling block. With Prévert as scriptwriter, Marcel Carné directed several supreme classics of French cinema; when the two split up