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FilmStruck First Friday: Night and Fog

Feb 3, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

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 […]

The Most Beautiful Wife
Movies

Courage and Fear in THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WIFE (1970)

Dec 14, 2016 Patrick King 0

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

Oct 21, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

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

Oct 18, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

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 […]

The Battle of Algiers
Events

2016 NYFF: The Battle of Algiers

Oct 11, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

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 […]

brigitte bardot
Opinion

Brigitte Bardot is The Worst Spy Ever. (But Still Sexy AF)

Aug 23, 2016 The Retro Set 0

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 […]

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