Word: vigo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lately, no one has used children so well, or so lovingly, as François Truffaut. Jean-Pierre Léaud-one of Agee's "perfect people"-found the full range of adolescent feeling in The 400 Blows. The roots of the performance could be traced to Jean Vigo, whose Zero for Conduct (1933), made with no professional kids, is still the screen's greatest poem to youthful anarchy. The 400 Blows exerted a strong influence on George Roy Hill, who in 1964 made The World of Henry Orient, which is about two lovesick Manhattan schoolgirls. As Merrie...
...Vigo's Zero de Conduit (1933) and Ophul's The Reckless Moment (1949), with James Mason and Joan Bennett, Sunday, March...
Simon of the Deeort, with five early experimental films, including Bunuel and Dall's Un Chien Andsiou, Vigo's Tarie, and The Life and Death of a Hollywood Extra tonight at 8:30, and Friday through Tuesday at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Free to Be... You and he, starting Monday...
...film is a cheap melodrama. There are quarrels and affairs among the actors, and nostalgic recounting of old ways of film-making. There are many homages to figures from the whole history of film: The Citizen Kane Book left on a shelf, the sign for "the Rue Jean Vigo"--a real place, Truffaut claims...
...mentors: In The Spider's Stratagem, made in 1969, the camera lingers briefly over a poster for Robert Aldrich's Wagnerian western The Last Sunset; in Tango there is a scene aboard a barge, between Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Leaud, that is meant to evoke Jean Vigo's classic L'Atalante...