Reviews
FilmStruck First Friday: Night and Fog
Starting Today: The first Friday of every month, we here at The Retro Set will offer up a pick from FilmStruck that we think is worth your while, whether it’s a classic, a hard to find […]
Foreign
Movies
Courage and Fear in THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WIFE (1970)
The Most Beautiful Wife (1970) is an Italian film written by Damiano Damiani, Enrico Ribulsi, and Sofia Scandurra. Directed by Damiani, the movie suggests that there is something innate about courage, but that it’s also a rarity. […]
Movies
Francois Truffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT: A Love Letter to the Movies
By the early ’70s, François Truffaut was no longer one of the great pioneers of French cinema. The man who had stunned the world by helping start the French New Wave with masterpieces like The […]
Events
2016 New York Film Festival – French Film Roundup
At this year’s New York Film Festival, two retrospectives were planned to coincide with the release of Bertrand Tavernier’s new documentary My Journey Through French Cinema. The first was a collection of French films prominently […]
Events
2016 NYFF: The Battle of Algiers
Shortly before our screening of Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, one of the organizers for the New York Film Festival announced that, unfortunately, Saadi Yacef—one of the real-life leaders of Algeria’s National Liberation Front […]
Opinion
Brigitte Bardot is The Worst Spy Ever. (But Still Sexy AF)
The Pictorial Palette is a creative exercise that selects a still from a classic film and explores its color patterns. It is our hope that these little swaths of color will provide a needed burst of energy– perhaps even inspire a smidgen of creativity–to […]