Word: feyder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leased its annual lists of the best pictures of the year. Picked as the best made anywhere in the world was La Kermesse Héroïque (TIME, Oct. 5), winner of the Grand Prix du Cinema Français, produced in France by Tobis, directed by Jacques Feyder, released in the U. S. last autumn. Ihe Board of Review's list of the ten best pictures made in Hollywood...
Possibly the only objection one could find to "Carnival in Flasders" is that there are traces of drama in the beginning which mislead one, for the whole thing turns into high comedy. Jacques Feyder's direction is well paced and takes full advantage of every situation, but the semi-serious tone of the first few scenes leaves one unprepared for the satire to follow. On retrospection, Madame Burgomaster's harangue, "Femmes! Femmes! Our men have failed us!" is seen as a keen stroke of burlesque, but at the time it looks like drama overdone. This is but a minor fault...
Directed by Jacques Feyder, who will make Marlene Dietrich's forthcoming Knight Without: Armor for Alexander Korda,La Kermesse Héroïque explodes the theory that Rene Clair has a monopoly on urbane comedy in the French cinema. It is as sly a farce as any that has ever led a U. S. censor board to mistake good manners for innocent intentions. Produced at a cost of $850,000-fabulous for a French cinema-and magnificently set by Lazare Meerson, it was distinguished abroad by winning the grand Prix du Cinema Français, being banned...