Word: henri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BURR HALL: French Film Festival: May 11: Talk by Henri Langlois and presentation of a rare film from his Cinematheque collection, 7:30. May 12: Jean Eustache, Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes with Jean-Pierre Leaud, 7:30, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance Nue, 9:30. May 13: Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 7:30, Agnes Varda, Le Bonheur, 9:30. May 14: Eric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse, 7:30, My Night at Maud's, 9:30. May 15: Phillipe De Broca, Cartouche, with Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 7:30, Love Game...
Devil's Island was supposed to be one of the world's tightest prisons. And one of the world's tightest movie sets is the location in Jamaica where Papillon, Henri Charrière's bestselling account of his escape, is being filmed...
...Wages of Fear. French, yet a surprising commercial success in the U.S. (both with sub-titles and in a dubbed version). Henri-Georges Clouzot wrote and directed this tragedy of Latin truckers working in a South American town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel...
...collectors of his time except the Steins. Morosov's tastes were slightly more conservative. He had 18 Cézannes, no fewer than five of which are in the present show, but he balked at Cubism. Schuhkin, however, absorbed it all, from the primitive and enchanted jungles of Henri Rousseau to the most difficult early cubist Picassos, from the bustling impressionist streetscapes of Pissarro to the dense, darkly resonant and sinister vision with which Gauguin, in Tahiti, could invest even a subject like Still-Life with Fruit...
...peaks of the French "New Wave", and the best film Francois Truffaut has made. Jeanne Moreau is the center of attraction for two close friends in the lively story which begins in pre-WWI Paris. Like Two English Girls (1972), it is based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, but the latter film is little more than a poor parody of the witty, self-conscious style of Jules...