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- November 15th, 2012, 4:36 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Jack Clayton and his films
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4661
Re: Jack Clayton and his films
Jack Clayton also directed a wonderful short in 1956, "The Bespoke Overcoat", from the story by Nikolai Gogol, with Alfie Bass and David Kossoff. A really moving adaptation of this ghost story, one of the best featurettes (33 mns) that I saw in my life.
- November 15th, 2012, 2:33 am
- Forum: Foreign Films
- Topic: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
- Replies: 617
- Views: 329489
Re: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
No, I don't speak a word of German, but in most of the cases I have seen the French versions, so it's not difficult to follow the German ones. French TV also programmed some of these German-language versions, like "Marianne" (Duvivier), "Amphytrion", "Gold", "FP1 a...
- November 14th, 2012, 3:36 pm
- Forum: Foreign Films
- Topic: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
- Replies: 617
- Views: 329489
Re: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
Apparently a friend of mine just got "Fahrendes Volk" and is sending me a copy. It was quite unexpected and his mail arrived maybe one hour after I wrote the previous post! You can be interested to know that in 1963, a friend of mine found at the "Flea Market" in Saint-Ouen (just...
- November 14th, 2012, 7:42 am
- Forum: Foreign Films
- Topic: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
- Replies: 617
- Views: 329489
Re: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
I'm still trying to find the German-language version of "La kermesse héroïque", shot simultaneously by Jacques Feyder. Françoise Rosay plays the same role as in the French version, but the other actors (Paul Hartmann, Charlotte Daudert, Albert Lieven) are different. The title is "Die ...
- November 4th, 2012, 7:54 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: VERSIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF EARLY TALKIES
- Replies: 15
- Views: 26745
Re: VERSIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF EARLY TALKIES
In fact I liked a handful of movies made by directors from the Nouvelle Vague, but all of them were, in fact, shot like classic movies, and with real actors, like Truffaut's "Le dernier métro", and a lot of Claude Chabrol movies ("Le boucher", etc.). But generally I prefer the ol...
- November 3rd, 2012, 4:48 pm
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: CORNELL WOOLRICH : King of Noir
- Replies: 181
- Views: 113746
Re: CORNELL WOOLRICH : King of Noir
First of all, thank you for your welcome words, and sorry for the broken English. In order to give an idea about how William Irish was treated in book reviews in this country, this extract, from the magazine "Le Point" by Jacques-Pierre Amette: " An absolute masterpiece, a great poem,...
- November 3rd, 2012, 3:44 pm
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: VERSIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF EARLY TALKIES
- Replies: 15
- Views: 26745
Re: VERSIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF EARLY TALKIES
My favourite time period for French cinema is from the early talkies to the beginning of the Sixties, with some exceptions of course. I was born in 1940 and started to watch movies in Paris in the mid-Fifties, most of the time I was alone. I mean, with some friends of my age, I was going to local mo...
- November 3rd, 2012, 6:30 am
- Forum: Dramas
- Topic: Leibelei (1933) by Max Ophuls
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13697
Re: Leibelei (1933) by Max Ophuls
"Libelei" was filmed in 1932. Much before the 1958 remake, Ophüls remade his own movie the following year (1933) in France. More exactly, the French version was partly made of scenes re-shot (by Ophüls) with other actors, and other scenes were just dubbed. Magda Schneider, Olga Tsechowa, W...
- November 3rd, 2012, 5:14 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: Au Bonheur des Dames (1930)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30574
Re: Au Bonheur des Dames (1930)
Dita Parlo was also in "Mademoiselle Docteur" (both French and English versions, the French one (1936) directed by GW Pabst stars Pierre Fresnay, Louis Jouvet, Viviane Romance, Charles Dullin, Pierre Blanchar - the British one (1937) has John Loder, Erich von Stroheim and Claire Luce). Her...
- November 3rd, 2012, 4:30 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: VERSIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF EARLY TALKIES
- Replies: 15
- Views: 26745
Re: VERSIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF EARLY TALKIES
I have many of these alternate versions, not only of Hollywood films, but of European films as well. The practice continued sporadically much later, for instance Julien Duvivier shot two versions of "Marianne de ma jeunesse" [Marianne of My Youth], in French and German. Marianne Hold and I...
- November 3rd, 2012, 1:33 am
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: CORNELL WOOLRICH : King of Noir
- Replies: 181
- Views: 113746
Re: CORNELL WOOLRICH : King of Noir
Here in France, William Irish [some of his works, novels or short stories were published under his other aliases, but he is more commonly known as William Irish] is simply considered as one of the greatest American writers. I insist, "writer" [écrivain], not just as an author of pulps &quo...
- November 2nd, 2012, 11:43 pm
- Forum: Foreign Films
- Topic: Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 31207
Re: Henri-Georges Clouzot
I also love Clouzot's "L'assassin habite au 21", adapted, like "Quai des Orfèvres", from a novel by the Belgian writer Stanislas-André Steeman. The cast is great too, with Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Larquey and Jean Tissier. The same Steeman novel was lat...
- November 2nd, 2012, 11:08 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: Todd Slaughter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17661
Re: Todd Slaughter
"Mr. ARKADIN" is just a cretin.
- November 2nd, 2012, 10:48 pm
- Forum: Welcome New Members!
- Topic: Bonjour!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16393
Bonjour!
Hello everybody! I'm from France and althought being interested in movies since (too) many years I'm a newbie on this forum. I saw my first "horro" movie in 1952 (at 12), it was "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" in a movie theater in Paris. And in the following years I be...