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This week the Harvard Film Archive brings us "Docteur Petiot," the chilling, fact-based story of a physician turned serial killer during the chaotic days of Nazi occupation in Paris. Seamlessly uniting art and reality, Dr. Petiot borrows elements of documentary, horror and black comedy to unveil the evil of the "good doctor...
...Docteur Popaul. Harvard-Epworth Church, Sunday...
...Gastronomie Médicale, who was perhaps the slimmest man aboard. One of his secrets, he confided, is to eat and make love with equal ardor; although figures differ, Halpern averred that sex on the average consumes 100 calories per minute. On disembarking with his Japanese wife, le docteur observed happily that in the course of the cruise he had shed one pound...
...troubled career resembling Lang's and Welles's. The films after Les Cousins grew increasingly serious, tended toward morbidity, and lost both money and the critics. In order to keep working, he made cheap melodramas, among them Le Tigre Se Parfum Avec Dynamite and Marie-Chantal Contre Docteur Kah, to list the two most outlandish titles. Le Scandale, financed by Universal, is the fifth and perhaps last: it enabled him to make a more ambitious dramatic film (Les Biches) which has restored him to critical favor and substantially renewed his career...
...renaissance. He was originally appointed to a lectureship here in 1939, but was mobilized in the French Army in the fall of that year. After the fall of France, Professor Seznec returned to the United States. He has served on the faculty since 1940. Professor Seznec is a Docteur-es-Lettres of the University of Paris, and has taught at several institutions in Europe and in the United States...