Thérèse Raquin (dir. Marcel Carné, 1953) – A step back from the poetic realism of Carné’s big-budget, big production Children of Paradise and lower-budget Port of Shadows, this is a melodrama that zooms…
Play Time (dir. Jacques Tati, 1967) – This was goofy but not only that, maybe something approaching a Chesterton comedy, Father Brown or something. A clear critique of all things…
It isn’t difficult to see how René Clair’s film À nous la liberté prompted a lawsuit against the production company of Charlie Chaplin’s subsequent film Modern Times. The most endearing…
