In his book Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema, T. Jefferson Kline makes the case that The Lovers “constitutes a remarkably complex meditation on the relationship between cinema and…
Elevator to the Gallows (dir. Louis Malle, 1958) – Am going to need to read up on this one, on account of its excellence. Am also going to need to…
Rope (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1948) – It’s usually just chalked up as a “great experiment,” by virtue of the precious few cuts in the film, and the disguising of most…
Murmur of the Heart (Le souffle au coeur) works like an anti-400 Blows, or a counterpoint to it. Louis Malle’s film adheres to conventional cinematic style more than Truffaut’s, though…
Precious Bodily Fluids 