Search Details

Word: clouzot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...should be interested to know how your film critic discovered that the central idea of Clouzot's film The Wages of Fear was "hate America" [Feb. 21]. I know this idea circulated in some limited circles here . . but none of the serious critics ever believed it was so. There is an unpleasant oil company in the film; it so happens that most oil companies are American, but your critic is not justified in saying that it stands for America. To us, here, it was just an unpleasant oil company. What should we say, then, when we see your movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed. Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...actors try hard, but Wages of Fear is not a drama of character; Clouzot is much more interested in ideas than in people. At the social level his idea is simple: hate America. His four figures are intended to signify Italy, Germany, and two aspects of the French soul, all sent on a fool's errand to pull U.S. chestnuts out of the fire. The propaganda is mostly vicious and irresponsible, occasionally clearsighted, always clever. U.S. audiences, however, will not be subjected to most of it. Most of the hate-America stuff was hacked out of the original, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next