1) Jeanne Moreau (“The Adolescent”)
2) Anna Karina (“Vivre Ensemble”, 2008’s “Victoria”)
3) Liv Ullmann (“Faithless”)
4) Mai Zetterling
5) Ingrid Thulin (“One on One”)
Most of his 60s work, especially his collaborations with Anna Karina. Absolute faves: Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie, Band of Outsiders, Contempt, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, parts of Weekend. Of the later works, Every Man For Himself.
1) Several Godard films, notably Georges Delerue’s elegiac score for “Contempt”, Antoine Duhamel’s rich music and lovely songs for “Pierrot le Fou”, Michel Legrand’s outstanding ones for “Band of Outsiders” and “Vivre sa Vie”, and Paul Misraki’s evocative music for “Alphaville”
2) The lack of music in such key films as “Belle de Jour”, “Lancelot du Lac” and “Persona” — sounds and silence and the human voice
3) Bernard Hermann’s famous score for “Vertigo”
4) Nino Rota’s work for Fellini films and “The Godfather”
5) Stephen Sondheim for Resnais’ “Stavisky”
6) Woody Allen’s use of Gershwin in “Manhattan” and of Satie in “Another Woman”
1) Life Is Cheap…But Toilet Paper Is Expensive 2) Two Or Three Things I Know About Her 3) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie 4) Hold Me While I’m Naked 5) The Suspended Step of the Stork 6) Cries and Whispers 7) Bread and Chocolate 8) Eyes Wide Shut 9) I Spit on Your Grave 10) The Autobiography of a Flea
“Vivre Sa Vie” can be translated as “To Live One’s Life”. In the US it was translated as “My Life to Live”; in Britian the film carried the title “It’s My Life”. Sometimes distributors retitle movies to be more appealing or understandable to wider audiences. Samples: “The Sound of Music” became “La Melodie de Bonheur” in France. Bergman’s “En Passion” (A Passion) was released as erotic-sounding “The Passion of Anna” in the US. Schlesinger’s “Bloody Sunday” was shown as “Sunday ,Bloody Sunday” in the US to ensure audiences that it wasn’t a slasher movie.
Anna Karina was among the first ones, especially as Nana in Vivre sa Vie. Her “reappearance” 40+ years later in the belated 2009 theatrical release of Made in USA reaffirms what a magical movie presence she was and still is (vide her funny cameo in Truth About Charlie and her own film Victoria).
Actress:
1. Anna Karina in “Vivre sa Vie”
2. Isabelle Adjani in “The Story of Adele H.”
3. Isabelle Huppert in “The Piano Teacher”
4. Jeanne Moreau in “Jules and Jim”
5. Vanessa Redgrave in “Wetherby”
6. Anne Bancroft in “The Graduate”
7. Bibi Andersson in “Persona”
8. Giulietta Masina in “The Nights of Cabiria”
9. Glenda Jackson in " Sunday Bloody Sunday"
10. Meryl Streep in “Out of Africa”
11. Bette Davis in “All About Eve”
12. Audrey Hepburn in “The Nun’s Story”
13. Greta Garbo in “Ninotchka”
14. Delphine Seyrig in “Muriel”
15. Emmanuelle Riva in “Hiroshima Mon Amour”
16. Faye Dunaway in “Chinatown”
17. Maria Falconetti in “The Passion of Joan of Arc”
18. Katharine Hepburn in “The Philadephia Story”
19. Mia Farrow in “The Purple Rose of Cairo”
20. Vivien Leigh in “A Streetcar Named Desire”
21. Ingrid Bergman in “Notorious”
22. Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard”
23. Jane Fonda in “Klute”
24. Judy Davis in “High Tide”
25.Maggie Cheung in “In The Mood for Love”
Actors
1. Marcello Mastroianni in “8 1/2”
2. Jean Paul Belmondo in “Pierrot le Fou”
3. Toshiro Mifune in “Throne of Blood”
4. Peter Sellers in “Being There”
5. Jack Lemmon in “Some Like It Hot”
6. George Clooney in “Michael Clayton”
7. Michel Piccoli in “Contempt”
8. Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar Named Desire”
9.Yves Montand in “The Wages of Fear”
10. Fernando Rey in “That Obscure Object of Desire”
11.Al Pacino in “The Godfather II”
12. Robert DeNiro in “Taxi Driver”
13. Dirk Bogarde in “The Servant”
14.Jack Nicholson in “Chinatown”
15.John Gielgud in “Providence”
16. Daniel Day Lewis in “My Left Foot”
17. Jeremy Irons in “Dead Ringers”
18. Sean Penn in “Milk”
19.Mel Gibson in “The Year of Living Dangerously”
20.Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”
21.Dustin Hoffmann in “Tootsie”
22.Robert Mitchum in “Night of the Hunter”
23. Daniel Auteuil in “Un coeur en hiver”
24.Cary Grant in “Notorious”
25. James Stewart in “Vertigo”
1. Godard— Pierrot le Fou, Vivre sa Vie, Contempt
2. Bunuel— Belle de Jour, Viridiana, Tristana
3. Bergman— Persona, Smiles of a Summer Night, Shame
4. Wilder— Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity
5. Visconti— The Leopard, Rocco and His Brothers, The Stranger
According to reports, Bertolucci has been sidelined by serious back problems. At one point he was set to direct an adaptation of Ann Patchett’s novel “Bel Canto”, about an opera singer and her audience trapped inside a diplomat’s residence in a Latin American country after terrorists take over. He was also preparing to shoot a biopic based on the life of Gesualdo de Vanosa, a 17th century Italian musician.
A beautiful movie. Stunning cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno. Great production design by Piero Tosi. Marcello is outstanding.
Anna Karina gives a very moving performance. If you check the movie reviews when the film was released in the US in 1967, you’ll be
impressed by the positive ones it elicited from snobbish critics like Stanley Kauffmann, John Simon and Pauline Kael. Kael thought the
film had great passages. She picked it as her third choice for Best Film of 1967, after Bonnie and Clyde and Chimes at Midnight. She voted
Anna Karina as best supporting actress.
Truffaut’s greatest achievement. Isabelle Adjani is phenomenal. Unfortunately, she only made one film with Truffaut. There are two
versions— in French and in English.
1. Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina in Visconti’s The Stranger
2. Geraldine Page in Woody Allen’s Interiors
3. Annie Girardot in Vivre Pour Vivre
4. Gena Rowlands and Sandy Dennis in Allen’s Another Woman
5. Anna Karina in Godard’s films plus Rivette’s The Nun
6. John Gielgud in Providence
7. Vanessa Redgrave in Wetherby
8. Genevieve Bujold in Dead Ringers
9. Peter Finch in Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Glenda Jackson in Stevie
Best Actress : Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones), Carey Mulligan (An Education),
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Robin Wright Penn (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee)
Best Actor: George Clooney (Up in the Air), Daniel Day Lewis (Nine), Matt Damon (Invictus), Morgan Freeman (Invictus),
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Supporting Actress: Mo’ Nique (Precious), Julianne Moore (A Single Man), Judi Dench (Nine), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air),
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Supporting Actor: Stanley Tucci (Julie & Julia), Jeff Bridges (Men Who Stare at Goats), Peter Saarsgard (An Education), Billy Crudup (Public Enemies), Christophe Walz (Inglorious Basterds)
Pauline Kael , Susan Sontag, Manohla Dargis ( probably the best living film critic today), Richard Brody, Andrew Sarris, Stanley Kauffmann, Anthony Lane, Stephanie Zacharek, Michael Sragow…I find Roger Ebert so middle-brow and dull…Rex Reed laughable…John Simon (when he was active) is erudite and eloquent and the best film critic of the 19th century, as characterized by Sarris.
Female Directors — How many can you name? over 3 years ago
Actresses who have directed movies—
1) Jeanne Moreau (“The Adolescent”)
2) Anna Karina (“Vivre Ensemble”, 2008’s “Victoria”)
3) Liv Ullmann (“Faithless”)
4) Mai Zetterling
5) Ingrid Thulin (“One on One”)
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Guilty Pleasures over 3 years ago
Woody Allen’s “Another Woman”, the most Bergmanesque of his dramas
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favorite and least favorite godard films over 3 years ago
Most of his 60s work, especially his collaborations with Anna Karina. Absolute faves: Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie, Band of Outsiders, Contempt, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, parts of Weekend. Of the later works, Every Man For Himself.
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Outstanding Original Score in any Film over 3 years ago
1) Several Godard films, notably Georges Delerue’s elegiac score for “Contempt”, Antoine Duhamel’s rich music and lovely songs for “Pierrot le Fou”, Michel Legrand’s outstanding ones for “Band of Outsiders” and “Vivre sa Vie”, and Paul Misraki’s evocative music for “Alphaville”
2) The lack of music in such key films as “Belle de Jour”, “Lancelot du Lac” and “Persona” — sounds and silence and the human voice
3) Bernard Hermann’s famous score for “Vertigo”
4) Nino Rota’s work for Fellini films and “The Godfather”
5) Stephen Sondheim for Resnais’ “Stavisky”
6) Woody Allen’s use of Gershwin in “Manhattan” and of Satie in “Another Woman”
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Which Movies Have You Walked Out On? over 3 years ago
Ken Russell’s “Tommy”. There was a power failure somewhere in the middle. I didn’t bother to go back inside the theater.
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Best title over 3 years ago
1) Life Is Cheap…But Toilet Paper Is Expensive 2) Two Or Three Things I Know About Her 3) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie 4) Hold Me While I’m Naked 5) The Suspended Step of the Stork 6) Cries and Whispers 7) Bread and Chocolate 8) Eyes Wide Shut 9) I Spit on Your Grave 10) The Autobiography of a Flea
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You choose the book to make into a film. Then choose the director. Go! over 3 years ago
“The Book of Salt” —Ang Lee
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The scariest or most disturbing film you have EVER seen. over 3 years ago
A toss-up between Nicolas Roeg’s DON’T LOOK NOW and Jack Clayton’s THE INNOCENTS.
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Mistransalted titles over 3 years ago
“Vivre Sa Vie” can be translated as “To Live One’s Life”. In the US it was translated as “My Life to Live”; in Britian the film carried the title “It’s My Life”. Sometimes distributors retitle movies to be more appealing or understandable to wider audiences. Samples: “The Sound of Music” became “La Melodie de Bonheur” in France. Bergman’s “En Passion” (A Passion) was released as erotic-sounding “The Passion of Anna” in the US. Schlesinger’s “Bloody Sunday” was shown as “Sunday ,Bloody Sunday” in the US to ensure audiences that it wasn’t a slasher movie.
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Recent Films that Deserve the Criterion Treatment over 3 years ago
Jacques Rivette’s La Religieuse and Luchino Visconti’s long-unavailable film version of Camus’ The Stranger
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SEX & LOVE IN CELLULOID: WHO FIRST, AND WHO LATELY, TURNED YOU ON? over 3 years ago
Anna Karina was among the first ones, especially as Nana in Vivre sa Vie. Her “reappearance” 40+ years later in the belated 2009 theatrical release of Made in USA reaffirms what a magical movie presence she was and still is (vide her funny cameo in Truth About Charlie and her own film Victoria).
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Movies your parents like over 3 years ago
They had bad taste— The Singing Nun, as opposed to my La Religieuse
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Favorite use of a song in a film. over 3 years ago
“I Never Thought That I Would Always Love You” in Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou” and “Le Tourbillon” in “Jules and Jim”
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My Top 25 Performances of All Time over 3 years ago
Actress:
1. Anna Karina in “Vivre sa Vie”
2. Isabelle Adjani in “The Story of Adele H.”
3. Isabelle Huppert in “The Piano Teacher”
4. Jeanne Moreau in “Jules and Jim”
5. Vanessa Redgrave in “Wetherby”
6. Anne Bancroft in “The Graduate”
7. Bibi Andersson in “Persona”
8. Giulietta Masina in “The Nights of Cabiria”
9. Glenda Jackson in " Sunday Bloody Sunday"
10. Meryl Streep in “Out of Africa”
11. Bette Davis in “All About Eve”
12. Audrey Hepburn in “The Nun’s Story”
13. Greta Garbo in “Ninotchka”
14. Delphine Seyrig in “Muriel”
15. Emmanuelle Riva in “Hiroshima Mon Amour”
16. Faye Dunaway in “Chinatown”
17. Maria Falconetti in “The Passion of Joan of Arc”
18. Katharine Hepburn in “The Philadephia Story”
19. Mia Farrow in “The Purple Rose of Cairo”
20. Vivien Leigh in “A Streetcar Named Desire”
21. Ingrid Bergman in “Notorious”
22. Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard”
23. Jane Fonda in “Klute”
24. Judy Davis in “High Tide”
25.Maggie Cheung in “In The Mood for Love”
Actors
1. Marcello Mastroianni in “8 1/2”
2. Jean Paul Belmondo in “Pierrot le Fou”
3. Toshiro Mifune in “Throne of Blood”
4. Peter Sellers in “Being There”
5. Jack Lemmon in “Some Like It Hot”
6. George Clooney in “Michael Clayton”
7. Michel Piccoli in “Contempt”
8. Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar Named Desire”
9.Yves Montand in “The Wages of Fear”
10. Fernando Rey in “That Obscure Object of Desire”
11.Al Pacino in “The Godfather II”
12. Robert DeNiro in “Taxi Driver”
13. Dirk Bogarde in “The Servant”
14.Jack Nicholson in “Chinatown”
15.John Gielgud in “Providence”
16. Daniel Day Lewis in “My Left Foot”
17. Jeremy Irons in “Dead Ringers”
18. Sean Penn in “Milk”
19.Mel Gibson in “The Year of Living Dangerously”
20.Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”
21.Dustin Hoffmann in “Tootsie”
22.Robert Mitchum in “Night of the Hunter”
23. Daniel Auteuil in “Un coeur en hiver”
24.Cary Grant in “Notorious”
25. James Stewart in “Vertigo”
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3 Favourite Movies From 5 Favourite Directors over 3 years ago
1. Godard— Pierrot le Fou, Vivre sa Vie, Contempt
2. Bunuel— Belle de Jour, Viridiana, Tristana
3. Bergman— Persona, Smiles of a Summer Night, Shame
4. Wilder— Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity
5. Visconti— The Leopard, Rocco and His Brothers, The Stranger
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Where are you from? about 3 years ago
I am from Alphaville
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What happened to Bernardo Bertolucci? about 3 years ago
According to reports, Bertolucci has been sidelined by serious back problems. At one point he was set to direct an adaptation of Ann Patchett’s novel “Bel Canto”, about an opera singer and her audience trapped inside a diplomat’s residence in a Latin American country after terrorists take over. He was also preparing to shoot a biopic based on the life of Gesualdo de Vanosa, a 17th century Italian musician.
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? almost 3 years ago
Anna Karina, especially in “Vivre sa Vie”, “Alphaville” and “Pierrot le Fou”.
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Which movies would you like to see on The Auteurs? almost 3 years ago
“VICTORIA”, the new film with Anna Karina in the title role. She also wrote and directed it.
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Favorite fassbinder film almost 3 years ago
CHINESE ROULETTE
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Best Films with NO soundtrack almost 3 years ago
Bresson and Bunuel…plus Bergman’s “Persona”
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Who would you like to direct "Michael Jackson's biographical film"? almost 3 years ago
Director: either David Lynch or Michel Gondry. Actor: Meryl Streep (she can impersonate anyone and anything)
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Visconti's The Stranger almost 3 years ago
A beautiful movie. Stunning cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno. Great production design by Piero Tosi. Marcello is outstanding.
Anna Karina gives a very moving performance. If you check the movie reviews when the film was released in the US in 1967, you’ll be
impressed by the positive ones it elicited from snobbish critics like Stanley Kauffmann, John Simon and Pauline Kael. Kael thought the
film had great passages. She picked it as her third choice for Best Film of 1967, after Bonnie and Clyde and Chimes at Midnight. She voted
Anna Karina as best supporting actress.
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SHELLEY DUVALL almost 3 years ago
Shelley Duvall has become a recluse.
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Adele H almost 3 years ago
Truffaut’s greatest achievement. Isabelle Adjani is phenomenal. Unfortunately, she only made one film with Truffaut. There are two
versions— in French and in English.
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Great performances that hardly ever get discussed almost 3 years ago
1. Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina in Visconti’s The Stranger
2. Geraldine Page in Woody Allen’s Interiors
3. Annie Girardot in Vivre Pour Vivre
4. Gena Rowlands and Sandy Dennis in Allen’s Another Woman
5. Anna Karina in Godard’s films plus Rivette’s The Nun
6. John Gielgud in Providence
7. Vanessa Redgrave in Wetherby
8. Genevieve Bujold in Dead Ringers
9. Peter Finch in Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Glenda Jackson in Stevie
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just how good is this godard fellow anyway? almost 3 years ago
Godard changed the language of cinema…and is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.
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Great films about artists.. almost 3 years ago
Altman’s “Vincent and Theo” ,about Van Gogh and his brother.
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For Those Who Care, Early Oscar Predictions over 2 years ago
Best Actress : Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones), Carey Mulligan (An Education),
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Robin Wright Penn (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee)
Best Actor: George Clooney (Up in the Air), Daniel Day Lewis (Nine), Matt Damon (Invictus), Morgan Freeman (Invictus),
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Supporting Actress: Mo’ Nique (Precious), Julianne Moore (A Single Man), Judi Dench (Nine), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air),
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Supporting Actor: Stanley Tucci (Julie & Julia), Jeff Bridges (Men Who Stare at Goats), Peter Saarsgard (An Education), Billy Crudup (Public Enemies), Christophe Walz (Inglorious Basterds)
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Which Film Critics Do You Read? over 2 years ago
Pauline Kael , Susan Sontag, Manohla Dargis ( probably the best living film critic today), Richard Brody, Andrew Sarris, Stanley Kauffmann, Anthony Lane, Stephanie Zacharek, Michael Sragow…I find Roger Ebert so middle-brow and dull…Rex Reed laughable…John Simon (when he was active) is erudite and eloquent and the best film critic of the 19th century, as characterized by Sarris.
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