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...There are certain works I've been dying to perform," Vosgerchian said. "For one, Gaspard de la Nuit, by Ravel. I'd also love to be able to play the second etude by Chopin at 6 a.m. perfectly without being warmed...
Maria Braun), and in the past few years has worked with Jean-Luc Godard (Passion), Ettore Scola (La Nuit de Varennes) and Marco Ferreri (The Story ofPiera). By now Schygulla has perfected the bold gesture deftly applied. The grocery-door shutters snap down, or a window shade snaps up, and a thrill sizzles through her like lightning. In the interrogation room she gets a look at her cuckolded husband and quickly puts her fingers to her eyes, gouging out his presence. Her mouth arcs, her tongue flicks, her eyes blaze, her face is illuminated by the reckless glow...
...directors, Hitchcock rubbed shoulders with Jean Renoir, and his own films sizzled with the tension between Hitchcock's manipulative elegance and Renoir's sharp-eyed humanism. The French title of Day for Night, the 1973 valentine to film making in which Truffaut plays a director, is La Nuit Américaine. So it seems sadly fitting that when he died of cancer last week, he was a patient at the American Hospital of Paris...
...France. Born Gyula Halász in Brassó (the origin of his pseudonym), in what is now Rumania, he went to Paris in 1924 to sculpt and write, then turned to photography to illustrate his articles. In 1933 his first major collection of seamy scenes, Paris de Nuit, was a sensation; a larger, franker version published in 1976, The Secret Paris of the 30's, was a U.S. bestseller. Brassaï's multiple talents included friendship, and in his volumes of portraits there are reminiscences of Bonnard, Giacometti, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett and, especially, Picasso...
...tear slides down his face. A 1930s hard-boiled hero, based on the young Jean Gabin, reappears 20 years later as the aging Gabin's Inspector Maigret. There is plenty of verve here but little charm; the relentless closeups favored by Director Ettore Scola (A Special Day, La Nuit de Varennes) turn every character into a comic-pathetic gargoyle. It is left to the nostalgic sound track to evoke the emotions of a nation as the Na zis stormed in and the Americans took over and the Revolution failed . . . and the band played...