RARA-AVIS: The French New Wave

From: Rob Preston ( rpreston@juniper.net)
Date: 11 Feb 2002


I'm not sure how applicable this is to readers on this list, if you are near the bay area you might consider seeing some of these, I just went to the 1st one on sunday and really enjoyed the film, nice and bleak tone.

> Palo Alto French Film Society presents seven films
> from The French New Wave
> all in 35mm with many new prints. The series begins
> on February 10 and
> runs on Sundays through April 7.
>
> Additional details on the web at www.pafff.org
>
> February 10 at 10:30 am. Elevator to the Gallows/
> Ascenseur pour
> l'飨afaud by Louis Malle, 1958, (88') with Jeanne
> Moreau, Georges
> Poujouly, Maurice Ronet. Winner Prix Louis Delluc,
> 1958.
>
> Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet) and Florence Carala
> (Jeanne Moreau), his
> mistress, have planned the perfect crime to get rid
> of her husband, Simon.
> But nothing goes as planned. A Hitchcockian film on
> a jazzy soundtrack by
> Miles Davis.
>
> February 24 at 10:30 am And God... Created Woman/
> Et Dieu... cr顠la
> Femme by Roger Vadim, 1956 (95') with Brigitte
> Bardot, Jean-Louis
> Trintignant.
> The eternal feminine, circa 1957, in the person of
> an amoral young woman
> (Brigitte Bardot) who plows her way through a
> succession of men: innocent
> Jean-Louis Trintignant, wealthy Curt Jurgens,
> misogynist Christian
> Marquand. The film that inspired The New Wave.
>
> March 3 at 10:30 am Cl鯠from 5 to 7/ Cl鯠de 5 ʼ/EM>
> 7 by Agn賠Varda 1962,
> (90') with Corinne Marchand, Michel Legrand,
> Jean-Claude Brialy, Eddie
> Constantine, Sami Frey, Anna Karina
> Made under the obvious influence of Jean-Luc Godard
> (who shows up alongside
> Anna Karina and Eddie Constantine in a
> film-within-the-film parody of
> silent comedies), Agn賠Varda captures two hours in
> the life of a vain pop
> singer (Corinne Marchand) as she awaits the results
> of a doctor's report
> that may indicate cancer..
>
> March 10 at 10:30 am Hiroshima, Mon Amour by
> Alain Resnais, 1959, (90')
> with Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada. Nominated for an
> Oscar for Best Writing,
> Story and Screenplay, 1961
> The eternal love story between a man and a woman set
> against the backdrop
> of the German occupation of France and the bombing
> of Hiroshima and with
> surprising and moving reminiscence of a past love. A
> French woman and a
> Japanese man meet in Hiroshima with unavoidable
> consequences that both try
> desperately to deny. A film that will haunt you
> forever. An absolute must
> see!
>
> March 24 at 10:30 am Breathless/ A bout de Souffle
> by Jean-Luc Godard,
> 1960, (87') with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg,
> Jean-Pierre Melville,
> Roger Hanin, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Louis Richard.
> Winner Prix Jean Vigo for
> Jean-Luc Godard in 1960. Winner Silver Berlin Bear,
> 1960.
> One of the landmarks of the Nouvelle Vague and the
> film which established
> Godard as one of the most influential directors of
> all time. Archetypal
> road-movie as it is, it features the rebellious
> Jean-Paul Belmondo as
> Michel, a car thief who kills a cop and then runs
> away with his American
> girlfriend (Jean Seberg). (Edinburgh University Film
> Society).
>
> March 31 at 10:30 am The 400 Blows/ Les 400 Coups
> by Fran篩s Truffaut,
> 1959 (94') with Jean-Pierre L页d. Winner Best
> Director, Cannes Film
> Festival, 1959.
> Antoine Doinel (the hero of several of Fran篩s
> Truffaut's films) is a 14
> years old Parisian. His parents do not show much
> interest about him. He
> skips school to go to the movies or play with his
> friends only to discover
> that his mother has a lover. Essentially
> autobiographic first feature
> length film by one of the key filmmakers of the New
> Wave.
>
> April 7 at 10:30 am The Girl at the Monceau Bakery
> by Eric Rohmer,1963,
> (23') followed by Suzanne's Career by Eric Rohmer,
> 1963,(54') with
> Catherine S饮
>
> The Girl at the Monceau Bakery Moral Tales I. A
> student played by a young
> Barbet Schroeder becomes infatuated with a girl he
> sees on the street. But
> after several days without seeing her, he decides to
> settle for the
> salesgirl in the local bakery.
>
> Suzanne's Career In the second of six moral tales,
> Eric Rohmer examines the
> relationship between two friends and a girl who at
> first appears easily
> exploited. As always in Rohmer's films, a moral
> structure underlies the
> formal structure. At the center is a male, initially
> too sure of himself to
> the point of hypocritical smugness.
>
> ----> Venue Info
>> Aquarius Theatre
> 430 Emerson St
> Palo Alto, CA
> 650 326 6843

> http://www.pafff.org/map.html

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