Word: jour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...costume piece, dedicated to the proposition that upper-class sex in 18th century France was frisky, witty, pretty and piquant. The Young Girls of Roche fort, a disappointing follow-up to Jacques Demy's ethereal The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, is a treacly dollop of banality. But Belle de Jour is Bufiuel...
Spanish Director Luis Bufiuel is 68, deaf and an acknowledged alcoholic; he has claimed that this-his 27th picture-will be his last. True or not, Belle de Jour is a fitting capstone to the curious career of an unpopular but near-legendary film maker whose favorite themes have been anticlericalism, madness, fetishist fantasies and the wilder frontiers of sex. The Belle of this story is the masochistic wife of a successful young Parisian doctor who finds relief from her marital frigidity by working part-time in a whorehouse-not for conventional kicks but for the delicious indignities involved. Since...
...this is his message, Bufiuel dresses it up in Belle de Jour with unaccustomed cinematic smoothness. Instead of the brutal bludgeoning in black-and-white that audiences have come to expect from such Bufiuel classics as Viridiana or Los Olvidados, Belle de Jour is composed in color with an eye to elegance that is well suited to the cool beauty of Deneuve...
...Video Boy" [Jan. 26] prompts me to write to tell you how far-reaching are the influences of "the red and white jour nal." I have for several years been conducting research on a glaucoma-like eye enlargement in birds. A TIME article, "Those Tired Children" [Nov. 6, 1964] prompted me to try subjecting chicks to continuous TV. After eight weeks, the birds seemed to be addicted to whatever was showing, and their eyes were markedly abnormal: 20% larger than those of birds reared under continuous incandescent light, and over 30% larger than normal eyes. What this exposure...
...following selection includes only those film's released commercially in the Unites States during 1967. This excludes films shown only at the New York Film festival, notably Rosselini's La Prise de Pouvoir de Louis XIV, and films made in 1967 but not yet shown here (Bunuels' Belle de Jour, Godard's La Chinoise). To make things simpler, I eliminate European films made over two years ago but released in New York during 1967. Andrew Sarris has included Bunuels' Exterminating Angel and Renoir's Boudou saved From Drowning on his list; I would also mention Godard's Le Petit Soldat...