Frech film noir season: recommendations

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so the french institute are screening these noirs throughout july (see the programme by working through the link):

http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/

recommend and thanks in advance.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 3 July 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That site is hard work. Anything with Jean Gabin in is well worth seeing - he is my favourite actor ever. Pepe Le Moko is tremendous.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 July 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah sorry abt that. I'll try and cut and paste chunks of the programme here a bit later on.

thanks martin.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 July 2003 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

here is the programme:

(do a top 3-5, if you like)

Fri 4 July - double bill
6.45pm Garde à vue | Under suspicion
8.30pm | cert. 18 Série Noire

Sat 5 July - double bill
5.45pm | cert. 18 Série Noire
8.00pm Garde à vue | Under suspicion

Tue 8 July -
6.00pm | cert. 12 Pépé le Moko
8.00pm Tristan - PREMIERE

Wed 9 July -
7.00pm | cert. 12 Maigret tend un piège | Maigret lays a trap - AUTHOR'S CHOICE
Followed by a conversation with international best-selling thriller author Jean-Christophe Grangé with writer Maxim Jakubowski (Murder One).

Thu 10 July -
6.00pm | cert. 12 Pépé le Moko
8.00pm Tristan - PREMIERE

Fri 11 July - double bill
6.15pm | cert. 15 Le Poulpe
8.30pm | cert. 18 Une affaire privée | A private affair

Sat 12 July -
7.00pm | cert. 18 Scènes de crimes | Crime scenes - AUTHOR'S CHOICE
Introduced by French thriller author, Dominique Manotti

Mon 14 July -
7.00pm | cert. 15 Le Poulpe
9.00pm | silent | £3 FANTOMAS, à l'ombre de la guillotine

Tue 15 July -
7.00pm | cert. 18 Une affaire privée | A private affair
9.00pm | silent | £3 FANTOMAS, Juve contre Fantômas

Wed 16 July -
7.00pm | cert. 18 Scènes de crimes | Crime scenes - AUTHOR'S CHOICE
9.00pm | silent | £3 FANTOMAS, Le Mort qui tue

Thu 17 July -
7.00pm | cert. 12 Touchez pas au grisbi
9.00pm | silent | £3 FANTOMAS, Fantômas contre Fantômas

Fri 18 July -
7.00pm | cert. 12 Le Trou | The Hole
8.450pm | silent | £3 FANTOMAS, Le Faux magistrat

Sat 19 July - double bill
6.00pm | cert. 12 Touchez pas au grisbi
8.00pm | cert. 12 Le Trou | The Hole

Mon 21 July -
7.30pm | cert. 12 Ascenseur pour l'échafaud | Lift to the scaffold

Tue 22 July -
7.30pm | cert. 15 Nada

Wed 23 July -
7.30pm | cert. 12 Ascenseur pour l'échafaud | Lift to the scaffold

Thu 24 July -
7.30pm | cert. 15 Nada

Fri 25 July - double bill
6.00pm | cert. PG Vivement dimanche! | Confidentially yours
8.30pm | cert. 12 Tirez sur le pianiste | Shoot the pianist

Sat 26 July - double bill
6.00pm | cert. 12 Tirez sur le pianiste
7.45pm | cert. PG Vivement dimanche! | Confidentially yours

Mon 28 July -
7.30pm | cert. 15 Plein soleil | Purple Noon

Tue 29 July -
7.30pm | cert. 12 Mélodie en sous-sol | Any number can win

Wed 30 July -
7.30pm | cert. 15 Plein soleil | Purple Noon

Thu 31 July -
7.30pm | cert. 12 Mélodie en sous-sol | Any number can win

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 July 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Purple Noon is definitely worth a see (it's based on the same novel as The Talented Mr. Ripley). Fantomas (a series of silent crime flicks from the twenties), as I've heard, is quite a bore, interesting only for the costumes and the athmosphere.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 4 July 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Both the Truffaut films (Shoot the Pianist and Confidentially Yours), Pepe le Moko, Le Trou, and I'd still say see at least one or two Fantomas films and then decide if you want more.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 5 July 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Fantomas (a series of silent crime flicks from the twenties), as I've heard, is quite a bore, interesting only for the costumes and the athmosphere.

Amateurist to thread STAT!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Fantomas is from 1913-14, it was a five part serial. Looks as though two parts will be shown. I don't know how much sense they'll make since each episode very much ends as a "cliffhanger."

I think they are suspenseful and funny and thrilling and beautiful, not to mention atmospheric. The costumes aren't much, but the views of early 20th c. Paris are priceless. If you've heard of Les Vampires, it's the same director, Louis Feuillade. This was his first boffo international success. It spawned remakes (some authorized, some not) all over the world and Fantomas movies, TV shows, etc. in France through the present day.

I can't speak more highly of these films.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lips.org/images/PH_feuillade5.jpg

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way Amateurist are you an Irma Vep fan?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

(the movie not the lady)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno. I saw it before I saw any Feuillade, and I remember having mixed feelings. I have to see it again.

I am a Maggie Cheung fan to be sure.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

You should see it again. I'm a big fan. M. Cheung is really divine in it.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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