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...guilt and anxiety. One result of all that was a widespread hunger for tales of horror and apocalypse. Wells, who had a profound distrust of perfectibility through industrial progress, fed this hunger with his best-known and still widely read novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. They were all written between 1895 and 1897. In an argument that is echoed today by many science-fiction writers, Wells stated that the novel was the only medium through which the great questions of social change could be discussed. Fiction would...
Jules & Jim. Directed by Francois Truffaut. Jeanne Moreau plays that type of modern woman Strindberg first adored. She captures for life two best friends, marrying one and seducing the other. Yet needing more than what wartime Bohemia or reclusive bourgeois stability can give her, she cannot be held. Harvard Square...
...American in Paris. Gene Kelly doing his best to live up to the great Fred Astaire image, as he hoofs his way through Paris to the beat of George Gershwin. Leslie Caron, dark-haired version of Jeanne Moreau, made her debut in this highly honored film directed by Liza Minelli's daddy, Vincente. Channel...
Truffaut. The stylish, light-hearted yet tragic Jules and Jim (1962) is one of the very best films of the 60s, one of the 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...
LEHMAN HALL, Banana Peel, directed by Marcel Ophuls, with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jeanne Moreau...