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...have been shown in art-house theaters across the country, and wouldn’t have subtly introduced so many philosophical issues into modern cinematic discourse.The Brattle has celebrated Janus’ fiftieth anniversary since mid-October, beginning a month-long series with a newly restored print of Renoir??s send-up of the French upper class, “Rules of the Game”—a film some French critics have called the best ever made. The Brattle repertory series ends on Thanksgiving Day with Alfred Hitchcock?...
...arts, and media. For movie buffs, Kirkland House Master Tom Conley’s FC 21, “Cinema et culture francaise, de 1896 à nos jours,” places French cinematic masterworks in their cultural and historical context. The to-die-for syllabus includes Jean Renoir??s brilliant and hilarious class comedy “The Rules of the Game,” Bunuel’s surrealist shorts, Godard’s flawless “Breathless,” and Truffaut’s classic “The 400 Blows...
...film is enjoyable alone for its astounding visuals (stunning for 1930) and rampant slapstick. Like Jean Renoir??s La Regle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game), also recently screened at the Archive, L’Age d’Or works on two levels: it’s a knee-slapping farce, at the same time deeply wrapped up in a scathing social commentary aimed squarely at the upper class. The targets of the latter film’s satire are Buñuel’s usual suspects: the Church, bourgeois society and other institutions...
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