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Francois Truffaut

Obsessions, indulged

This is a week for the masters: Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Ray Harryhausen, in that birth order (1899, 1915, 1920).Hitchcock trafficked in obsessions. He had a few obsessions of his own, notably an abiding fear of...

Film screening on October 11, 12

DHARWAD: The Chitra Film Society, Dharwad, will be screening two French films by Francois Truffaut at the Srijana auditorium on the Karnataka College campus here on October 11 and 12. Both the films are directed by French...

I’m Gonna Explode

NYFF coverage – One of the film’s successes is that it is able to be completely magical and fantastic without veering too far from the reality of teenagerdom. When not fully immersed in pranks (such as phoning in false reports...

Ophüls Proves Prophet With Prodigious Lola Montès

Lola Montès Running time 110 minutes Written by Annette Wademant, Max Ophüls and Jacques Natanson Directed by Max Ophüls Starring Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov Max Ophüls’ Lola Montès, from a screenplay (in French, German and...

Big Read heats up with Bradbury biographer

By Doug Carroll • Sheboygan Press staff • October 3, 2008 What does Sheboygan have in common with Mikhail Gorbachev, Elton John, Ringo Starr, Buzz Aldrin, Steven Spielberg, Hugh Hefner and Stephen King? The author is Ray...

Top 10 Films of 1968:#7: Stolen Kisses

It’s the third in Truffaut’s “Antoine Doinel” series of films in which actor Jean-Pierre Leaud plays the same character at different stages of his---and the character’s---life. (Click below for the post and a larger video...

New York film fest highlighted by 'Che,' Eastwood

The New York Film Festival defines itself as an annual chance to take account of the state of film as art. Last year's story line was obvious enough: American filmmakers, from Julian Schnabel to Wes Anderson, were making...

Jun Ichikawa dies at 59

Director known for commercial, film work TOKYO - Helmer Jun Ichikawa, 59, died after collapsing at lunch on Friday and being rushed to a nearby Tokyo hospital. The cause of death has not yet been announced. The morning...

Cinemarsh Sept. 18

On Thursday, Sept. 18, 8 p.m. in Fayerweather 113, Cinemarsh, brought to you by Marsh Arts House, is a program of screenings of classic and contemporary feature-length and short arts films. Our aim is to bring greater...

Director Bernard Rose meets his idol Ken Russell

Hi Ken, sorry I stole your movie Director Bernard Rose has worshipped eccentric film-maker Ken Russell all his life. I tell him I shot Immortal Beloved, a Beethoven biopic with Gary Oldman. The first Ken Russell film I...

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