Word: luc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inception from the collapse of Hollywood in the early '50s and the revival of Europe as a center of film production. Since the European industry was small and loosely organized, such directors as Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard could pretty well shoot them as they saw them and let the censor take the hindmost. As a result, they made a number of fine far-out films (The Bicycle Thief, Wild Strawberries, 8½, L'Avventura, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, The 400 Blows, Breathless) that made a startling amount...
...Sourire still feels the effects of the cloister even though she has left the Dominican convent outside Brussels to pursue a secular career as a pop singer. "I am not yet ready to face audiences," smiled Janine Deckers, 38, the singing nun who now goes by the name of Luc-Dominique. So when she embarks early next year on a tour of the U.S., Sister Smile will probably do most of her singing on taped TV shows...
...cool, scar-faced tough guy, who goes around telling Division Three Seductresses, "Listen, baby, I'm old enough to find my own broads. So get lost." He is the character American actor Eddie Constantine created on French television after Constantine flopped in the U.S. Now he's Jean-Luc Godard's hero in the French auteur's latest flick to hit the Brattle's screen, "Alphaville...
...Jean-Luc, What happens now is that Caution is supposed to kill Von Braun. Which he does. And then he takes the girl away with him to the Outerlands. Which he does. And the whole thing will end with the two of them -- Lemmy and Natasha -- tooling down the highway out of Alphaville with the strings coming up in a crashing crescendo, Which it does...
Another nun at Belgium's Ficher-mont Convent once said of Sister Luc-Gabrielle: "She's well adapted to the Dominican life." So it seemed as she puttered around the convent farm, ignoring the outside world, where her Singing Nun album (originally recorded as a souvenir for girls who came on retreats) competed with the platters of Bobby Darin and Paul Anka. But at some point she decided that her vocation may be secular after all. The convent announced that she has left to live outside Brussels, where, now 38, she will resume her former name of Janine...