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The Wages of Fear (1953) More at IMDbPro »Le salaire de la peur (original title)
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Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Murderer Lives At 21
20 May 2013 2:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
While Henri-Georges Clouzot is best remembered for many of his later films, including The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, the French filmmaker's 1942 debut has gone largely unseen by Western audiences until now. The Murderer Lives at 21 (L'Assassin Habite au 21), based on the novel by Belgian author Stanislas-Andre Steeman, is in fact a sequel to Georges Lacombe's The Last of Six, released a year earlier. That film also starred Pierre Fresnay and Suzy Delair, and was adapted by Clouzot for the screen. In fact, it was his dissatisfaction with the way his script was directed that inspired Clouzot to become a director himself. At the time of the film's production, World War II was in full swing and France was under the occupation of...
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The Forgotten: The Lodger
1 May 2013 8:18 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Masters of Cinema have kindly released L'assassin habite... au 21 (The Murderer Lives at... 21) on DVD. This, the directorial debut of Henri-Georges Clouzot, has never been an easy film to see in English-speaking territories. It's often dismissed a a minor effort, perhaps because of it's light-hearted tone, and because it's a more conventional whodunnit investigation than the more twisty and twisted later thrillers.
The stars are Pierre Fresnay (later hero of Le corbeau) and Suzy Delair (later heroine of Quai des Orfèvres, and Clouzot's mistress), playing a brilliant police inspector and his actress girlfriend. Suave Fresnay and blousy Delair would also play these roles in a sequel, Le dernier des six, scripted by Clouzot but not directed by him. It's not as good as this one but as a greedy swine I can't help wish that it could have been included as an extra on the disc.
There's been a series of robbery-murders, »
- David Cairns
Top Ten Tuesday – The Best of the French
30 April 2013 11:00 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The French film industry has always been among the worlds most important……at least to film studies professors. Most French movies are either funded by the French government or made with the support of government-linked media companies. Filmmakers face little market pressure in the creative process. That helps explain why they’re so boring!
Starbuck opens this weekend so we here at We Are Movie Geeks have decided to post this article about our favorite French films. Okay, so Starbuck is technically a Canadian film shot in Quebec, but its French language so, in our eyes that makes it French! The Hollywood remake is already in the can. It stars Vince Vaughn. The remake was originally tilted Dickie Donor but they’ve changed it to Delivery Man, so you just know they’ve screwed it up bad. This list may not line up with that of your typical French Cinema scholar. »
- Movie Geeks
Afs Essential Cinema: New Janus Films Series, New Digs
16 April 2013 8:30 AM, PDT | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
The Austin Film Society kicks off a new Essential Cinema series tonight ... and at a venue that's relatively new to them, but which I suspect will become familiar to many of us this year: the Marchesa Hall and Theatre.
"Classic 35mm Treasures from the Janus Films Archive" is a seven-film weekly series including a variety of European and Japanese movies from the 1960s, many of which you may have seen or at least heard of before. Many Janus Films are now Criterion Collection disks -- but this is your chance to see 35mm prints of Zazie dans le Metro, The Wages of Fear, Tokyo Story (pictured above) and others.
It's a great way to inaugurate regular Afs programming at the Marchesa, which will officially become the home for Essential Cinema and other series and Afs events in May. "Afs at the Marchesa" seats 278 and will feature repertory, independent and arthouse fare. »
- Jette Kernion
Director William Friedkin on Clashes With Pacino, Hackman and Why an Atheist Couldn't Helm 'Exorcist'
12 April 2013 10:41 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Few filmmakers have reached the professional heights or the career depths of William Friedkin. In the mid-1970s, he was the toast of the movie business, picking up an Oscar for "The French Connection" and topping box office charts with the blockbuster "The Exorcist." By the end of the decade, he had washed out in spectacular fashion. "Sorcerer," his big-budget remake of the French classic "The Wages of Fear," cost a then unheard of sum of $22 million to make, and grossed roughly half of its production budget. It had the misfortune to »
- Brent Lang
Film Feature: Highlights of the 2013 Chicago Critics Film Festival
10 April 2013 12:51 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The first annual Chicago Critics Film Festival, presented by the Chicago Film Critics Association and dedicated to Roger Ebert, will take place this weekend, April 12-14, 2013 at the Muvico Rosemont 18. With over 20 films programmed, this will be your first chance to see many of the biggest films of the year, and some of these films may never play again in Chicago. Great documentaries, exclusive premieres, and celebrity guests — here are my personal highlights and links to get your tickets.
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Sarah Polley has transitioned from actress to director with remarkable ease, delivering the critically acclaimed “Away From Her” and “Take This Waltz.” Her latest film happens to be about her own drama as the documentary “Stories We Tell” attempts to answer questions about her mother’s past and becomes something of a commentary on how and why we tell these stories in the first place. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - March (Part 2)
31 March 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Continued from here...The Wages of Fear (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953 France)Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival, Golen Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, BAFTA for Best Film from any Source, Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language FilmBen Umstead, East Coast Editor:i'm going to be brutally honest here. It ain't gonna be pretty and will probably put any serious film writing I do to question, but here goes... I found Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages Of Fear utterly boring. Yep. I'm certain one Jason Gorber is spinning in his easy chair right about now, so I'll imagine him asking this: "But how, Ben? How? It's one of the greatest suspense movies of all time! The slow build up of tension, the absolute moment-to-moment...
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Friedkin's "Sorcerer" Scores A Re-Release
22 March 2013 9:36 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
After many years mired in a complicated legal mess, it looks like William Friedkin's acclaimed 1977 cult film "Sorcerer" may finally resurface.
A remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic "The Wages of Fear," the film tells the story of four criminals hiding out in Nicaragua who are given the task of transporting unstable "sweating" dynamite two hundred miles through the South American jungle to help extinguish an oil fire.
Last year, Friedkin sued Universal and Paramount to determine who owns the rights. Though the lawsuit was dropped, that action seems to have had an effect with a re-colored digital print put into production.
"We’re working off the original negative, which is in pretty good shape, but without changing the original concept we have to bring it back in terms of color saturation, sharpness and all the stuff" Friedkin tells the trade paper.
The aim is for this clean new »
- Garth Franklin
William Friedkin's Misunderstood 1977 'Sorcerer' Getting Re-Release (Exclusive)
21 March 2013 2:38 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Exclusive William Friedkin's "Sorcerer" -- a film that fell victim to shifting tastes when it opened more than three decades ago -- will be remastered and released in theaters and for the first time on Blu-ray, the director told TheWrap. The film, a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear," nearly sank Friedkin's career when it hit theaters in 1977. He was riding high on the success of "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection," but as he recounts in his upcoming memoir "The Friedkin Connection," the release of "Star Wars" that same »
- Brent Lang
Top 5 Must See French Films
20 February 2013 1:45 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Of all the cinemas of the world, French cinema has to rank as not only one of the most important and iconic, but simply, one of the most enjoyable and intellectually engaging out there. Though frequently parodied for being pretentious and self-indulgent, French cinema has delivered some of cinema’s most provocative works, challenging our home-grown assumptions about what cinema should be, and expanding our horizons to consider some very different types of films.
But that’s not to say the French can’t do good old fashioned genre films either; as this list will attest, whether it’s a quirky comedy, an intellectual meditation on lost childhood or a taut suspense thriller, French cinema is some of the most exciting and invigorating out there.
To celebrate the release of Rust and Bone on Blu-ray (available on February 25th, click here to win the movie on Blu-Ray). Here are 5 must-see French films… »
- Shaun Munro
25 stylish French films worth watching
18 February 2013 1:50 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Odd List Aliya Whiteley Feb 19, 2013
Covering 85 years of cinema, Aliya provides her pick of 25 stylish, must-see French movies...
I’m going to kick this off in best New-Wave style by pointing out that we should be praising each great director’s body of work rather than showcasing favourite movies in a list format; after all, France came up with the concept of the auteur filmmaker, stamping their personality on a film, using the camera to portray their version of the world.
Yeah, well, personality is everything. So here’s a highly personal choice, arranged in chronological order, of 25 of the most individualistic French films. They may be long or short, old or new, but they all have one thing in common – they’ve got directorial style. And by that I don’t mean their shoes match their handbags.
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
There are no stirring battle scenes, »
- ryanlambie
William Friedkin Says 'Sorcerer' Finally Getting Digital Transfer, But Won't Be On Criterion
12 February 2013 7:01 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
2012 proved by turns an odd and triumphant year for director William Friedkin, who fashioned Matthew McConaughey's performance in the shockingly good “Killer Joe,” but also was forced into dealing with his troubled past, namely the 1977 suspense drama “Sorcerer.” Legal difficulties and lawsuits surrounding the film have plagued the past 12 months for the filmmaker, but now it appears Friedkin may finally gain some peace with his underseen gem. A remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's impeccable “The Wages of Fear,” “Sorcerer” has heretofore remained in the fabled margins of Friedkin's career, mostly due to its tumultuous production and squabbles with leads Roy Scheider and Bruno Cremer. It also flopped at the box office, taking in just $12 million on a $22 million budget. However, as Friedkin recently tried to revive the film for a new audience, he found that domestic and international partners Paramount and Universal »
- Charlie Schmidlin
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