Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. In the French countryside. Director Luis Buñuel (Viridiana) mounts a fascinating if inconclusive study of sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder as seen through the eyes of a worldly-wise Parisian maid (Jeanne Moreau...
Maurice Girodias, the shy little Parisian who was the world's foremost publisher of English-language pornography until tightening French censorship put his Olympia Press out of business, often talks about setting up shop in the U.S., but it is difficult to see what he could peddle. Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press and in a sense the American Girodias, is way ahead of him. Says Rosset hopefully: "Who knows if the limits have been reached? Just because the scientists split the atom, did they sit back and say, 'Well, that's it'?" The pioneering publisher...
Typical of the Gourin syndrome, Lozach was born there 36 years ago, left his father's bleak farm for lack of work, and became a "receptionist" in a Parisian meat factory. In 1952 he pulled up stakes and went west, became a bartender in his brother-in-law's New York restaurant, the Café Brittany, on Manhattan's West Side, and began learning the business from the bottom up. "Pigs' feet came first," he explains, "then on toward tête de veau." Today, lean and eager, and sporting a heavy gold ring...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. As a Parisian servant girl employed in a French provincial home, Jeanne Moreau grapples with family skeletons and smoothly finds her way through the murkier passages of a bleak, bitter satire directed by Luis Buñuel (Viridiand...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Director Luis Bunuel (Viridiana) mitigates the imperfections of his corrosive satire with some artistry-and with Jeanne Moreau, who is cast as the Parisian servant girl in a rural landscape teeming with sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder...