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There was standing room only in the National Film Theater when London's cinema fans turned out en masse to hear nouvelle vague Director Jean-Luc Godard deliver a lecture on movie making. But the appointed hour came and went with no sign of the speaker. Finally, the disappointed audience was read a telegram from the elusive Godard: "If I am not there, take anyone in the street, the poorest if possible, give him my ? 100 lecture fee, and talk with him of images and sound, and you will learn from him much more than from me because...
...emotionally extravagant and insecure Orgon (Gaston Vacchia) and the very slimy Tartuffe (Yves Gasc) give their roles a credibility and life the others lack. But it is true that Moliere has left somewhat flatter other characters: the attractive Elmire (Janine Souchon), the ingenue Marianne (Francine Walter), her brother Damis (Luc Ponette), her fiancee Valere (Pierre Cpustere), and Elmire's brother, Cleante (Michael Favory...
...CARABINIERS. When he is not behaving like a brat, Director Jean-Luc Godard can be quite grown up, as he once demonstrated with Breathless and now shows again with this dry, abrasive antiwar film that is at once a satire of post-war Europe and a subtle dissection of aggression...
...Pompidous entertain frequently, both at large receptions at the Matignon and at dinner parties for twelve in their apartment, where Pompidou holds forth on everything from his favorite nouvelle vague film director (Jean-Luc Godard) to his favorite poet (Baudelaire, whose work he never reads "without emotion"). In fact, Pompidou ranks somewhere among the literati himself, having begun work on two novels ("It would be entertaining to be a writer") and edited a widely used anthology of French poetry...
Under Bazin's guidance, Truffaut quickly stabilized and began to write film criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma, the recondite French movie journal that then housed such nouvelle vague cineasts as Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Truffaut proved so corrosive a critic that in 1958 he was banned from the Cannes Film Festival and forced to snipe at targets he could not see. What he could see, however, was Madeleine Morgenstern, daughter of a film executive whose products had received Truffaut's hardest knocks. After they were married, Truffaut continued his criticism, this time...