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Eclipse Series 45: Claude Autant-Lara—Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France

Jun 5, 2018 Nathanael Hood 0

Few filmmakers have career codas more disheartening than Claude Autant-Lara. Though dismissed by members of the French New Wave as part of the artistically sterile “tradition of quality” that supposedly plagued the French film industry […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Mississippi Mermaid
Movies

Film Noir Faux Pas: Truffaut’s MISSISSIPPI MERMAID

Jun 29, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

François Truffaut was never properly suited to film noir. His enthusiasms were too childish and his outlook too optimistic to ever be properly gloomy or cynical for that most nihilistic of genres. His male characters […]

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