François Truffaut is back with another Hitchcock-influenced adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich murder thriller, with stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo as lovers – criminals – fugitives, and partly filmed in a remote French island in the Indian Ocean. It’s a tale of a mail-order bride, larcenous deception, and irrational amor fou run amuck. The things we do for love sometimes obey no logic. Also starring Michel Bouquet.
Mississippi Mermaid
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 123 110 min. / La Sirène du Mississippi / Street Date February 14, 2023 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud.
Cinematography: Denys Clerval
Production Designer: Claude Pignot
Deneuve dresses: Yves Saint-Laurent
Film Editor: Agnès Guillemot
Original Music: Antoine Duhamel
Screenplay by François Truffaut based upon the novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich)
Produced by Marcel Berbert
Directed by François Truffaut
François Truffaut was the least radical of the official New Wave directors.
Mississippi Mermaid
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 123 110 min. / La Sirène du Mississippi / Street Date February 14, 2023 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud.
Cinematography: Denys Clerval
Production Designer: Claude Pignot
Deneuve dresses: Yves Saint-Laurent
Film Editor: Agnès Guillemot
Original Music: Antoine Duhamel
Screenplay by François Truffaut based upon the novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich)
Produced by Marcel Berbert
Directed by François Truffaut
François Truffaut was the least radical of the official New Wave directors.
- 3/11/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
My teenage introduction to art film culture was something of a science fiction auteur-detour (R2-D2?). I discovered Alphaville at a tiny art theater above the Fox Riverside, where Gone with the Wind had previewed in 1939. I bought the filmscript book to understand what the heck was going on… and slowly began to appreciate Jean-Luc Godard. Fifty-two years later I can’t claim a complete understanding, but I’m certain that the ‘étrange aventure’ of Lemmy Caution is as original a film, of any kind, that I’ve ever seen.
Alphaville
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1965 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 99 min. / Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution / Street Date July 9, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Michael Delahaye, Christa Lang, Jean-Pierre Leaud.
Cinematography: Raoul Coutard
Film Editor: Agnès Guillemot
Original Music: Paul Misraki
Poems by Paul Éluard
Produced by André Michelin
Written...
Alphaville
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1965 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 99 min. / Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution / Street Date July 9, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Michael Delahaye, Christa Lang, Jean-Pierre Leaud.
Cinematography: Raoul Coutard
Film Editor: Agnès Guillemot
Original Music: Paul Misraki
Poems by Paul Éluard
Produced by André Michelin
Written...
- 7/20/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Saturday Night Live took on President Donald Trump once again over the weekend, showing what it would like if an alien invasion went down under his leadership. Spoiler alert: It doesn't go well.
Alec Baldwin reprised his impression of the commander-in-chief, who is tasked with the unenviable duty of motivating the last remaining cadre of soldiers following a devastating attack on the United States by extra-terrestrial villains.
Watch: 'SNL' Brutally Mocks President Donald Trump's First Press Conference and Latest Sex Scandal
Unfortunately for the troops, Baldwin's Trump isn't able to do much more than hit inane talking points while avoiding the real issues facing America -- like the fact that California has been vaporized.
"Everyone in California is dead," Kenan Thompson's army commander tells the president.
Trump only has one concern, however. "Even Arnold?" he asks, referring to his Celebrity Apprentice rival, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
More: Alec Baldwin's 13 Funniest 'Saturday Night Live' Moments...
Alec Baldwin reprised his impression of the commander-in-chief, who is tasked with the unenviable duty of motivating the last remaining cadre of soldiers following a devastating attack on the United States by extra-terrestrial villains.
Watch: 'SNL' Brutally Mocks President Donald Trump's First Press Conference and Latest Sex Scandal
Unfortunately for the troops, Baldwin's Trump isn't able to do much more than hit inane talking points while avoiding the real issues facing America -- like the fact that California has been vaporized.
"Everyone in California is dead," Kenan Thompson's army commander tells the president.
Trump only has one concern, however. "Even Arnold?" he asks, referring to his Celebrity Apprentice rival, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
More: Alec Baldwin's 13 Funniest 'Saturday Night Live' Moments...
- 3/12/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Here's something special, a Godard movie about people as much as concepts, and the dialogue doesn't sound as if it belongs in cartoon bubbles. Jean-Luc Godard turns his intellect to the subject of relationships and reveals a lot about himself. It's a beautiful show too -- with the incredible Macha Méril visually cut up for study piece by piece. A Married Woman Blu-ray Entertainment One / Cohen Film Collection 1964 / B&W / 1:37 full frame / 95 min. / Un Femme Marieacute;e / Street Date May 24, 2016 / 39.98 Starring Bernard Noël, Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy, Roger Leenhardt. Cinematography Raoul Coutard Film Editor Andrée Choty, Françoise Collin, Agnès Guillemot, Gérard Pollicand. Written and Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Imagine that -- a Jean-Luc Godard film not primarily organized around destructing film language. By 1964 Godard had taken apart the conventions of film editing and structure. He'd plumbed new depths in genre autopsies and blended moving pictures...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Imagine that -- a Jean-Luc Godard film not primarily organized around destructing film language. By 1964 Godard had taken apart the conventions of film editing and structure. He'd plumbed new depths in genre autopsies and blended moving pictures...
- 5/10/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
He's ready to wed! At sunset in Venice on Saturday, guests and the groom began departing the famed Belmond Hotel Cipriani - unofficial wedding weekend headquarters for George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin's nuptials - en route to the main event. The destination: the historic Aman Canal Grande Venice, where a ladies-only wedding eve party was held Friday night. When guests arrived, they entered the hotel through an entryway tented with gold-trimmed curtains. Related: George and Amal Party - Separately - Night Before WeddingFather of the groom Nick Clooney was spotted with a glass of champagne as he and wife Nina...
- 9/27/2014
- by Michelle Tauber, @michelletauber
- PEOPLE.com
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