Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bride Wore Black, Truffaut has Gallicized a novel by American Mystery Writer Cornell Woolrich and remade it in his own images. As revealed in a series of shuffled flashbacks, the groom and the bride (Jeanne Moreau) trip happily down the steps of a church and smile at the wedding party's photographer. A shot rings out, and the new husband falls. Five men are responsible for the killing, a group of drinking and hunting cronies who played with a gun until one of them accidentally became the trigger man. The thought of revenge becomes an idée fixe...
Like the reigning romantic heroes of mid-19th century musical Europe, Chopin and Liszt, New Orleans-born Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) had sex appeal aplenty. As a Wunderkind pianist-composer in the Paris salons, as a lion on tour in the U.S., the West Indies and Latin America, he dazzled the ladies with his pink-lemonade piano pieces and thrilled them with his frail, aristocratic good looks and his saturnine, bedroomy eyelids. One panting female, so the story goes, even swooped down upon him at the end of a recital, picked him up in her arms and made...
...iconic images which crowd the film: the old King's breath freezing in the chill sunlight of his vast hall, Hotspur's (Norman Rodway) peripatetic motion caught by a camera tracking in tight close-up, the gross Falstaff beside the cruelly emaciated Justice Shallow (Alan Webb), Doll Tearsheet (Jeanne Moreau) demonstrating how a tender and accomplished whore might satisfy an impossibly fat old patron. The Battle of Shrewsbury is simply the finest, truest, ugliest war footage ever shot and edited for a dramatic movie. Welles fills Falstaff with motifs to create visual unities: the vast castle wall which dominates shot...
Adults Only? In Dallas, Viva Maria, a Brigitte Bardot-Jeanne Moreau movie, was barred to children. City Attorney N. Alex Bickley conceded that Viva was a "marginal case." But though he might have preferred a clearer example, he argued that it was rightly banned because of a few scenes that might suggest to juveniles that sexual promiscuity was desirable or commonly accepted...
...third was a period of fights and Crimson frustration. Gary Mitchell rammed home the sixth Engineer goal off a face-off with Harvard a man down. Then a minute later Ron Moreau stole the puck from Harvard's Terry Flaman and raised the margin...