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...Screenwriter Francois Truffaut pioneered French new Wave film, and "Breathless" exemplifies the genre. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo fleshes out the New Wave hero flawlessly by shattering the image of the typical leading man. One scene shows Belmondo's character, the fugitive Michel Poiccard, staring at a poster of Humphrey Bogart for minutes on end. But Poiccard's unglamorous criminal record's appetite for sex and apathy for everything else render him the opposite of the tough-but-noble Bogart-esque hero...
Students didn't just watch the movie--they were part of it. The audience even erupted in applause when the corrupt French official, Louis Renoult, lets Bogart get away with murder at the film...
...Bogart wasn't the only one who drew crowds at the Brattle and other local theaters, according to one administrator who remembers...
...They used to also have festivals of other people too, like Ingrid Bergman, but the Bogart one was very popular," says L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of the College, "In the earlier days, it was very common for people to go to movies frequently, not only the Brattle but the University Theater that used to face out on Mass...
...walk into the darkened room filled with black tables, flickering candles and strong coffee. A friend waves suggestively through the wispy smoke. You're not sure, but that man in the fedora hat slouched in the far corner could be Humphrey Bogart...