Thursday, 11 August 2011

Places: France/Films and cinema.


A concise list of French films/cinema, with title, dates and directors names. I have always been a great fan of film, but for me French films just have a little something...romance, whimsy, beauty...perfection. The films which I have highlighted in bold are specifically important in my life, and in the history of cinema- having particular acclaim or redeemed success. I will go on to study and research these films in more depth at a later stage.
(Films are listed in no particular order)

- 8 women (2001, François Ozon)
- A Heart in Winter (1992, Claude Sautet)
- Beauty and The Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau)
- Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
- Betty Blue (1986, Jean-Jacques Beineix)
- Birds Of A Feather (1978, Edouard Molinaro)
- Bitter Moon (1992, Roman Polanski)
- Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1990, Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
- Delicatessen (1991, Marco Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- Diva (1981, Jean-Jacques Beineix)
- French Twist (1995, Josiane Balasko)
- Hidden (2005, Michael Haneke)
- Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
- Jean de Florette (1986, Claude Berri)
- Jesus of Montreal (1989, Denys Arcand)
- Jules et Jim (1961, François Truffaut)
- La Controverse de Valladolid (1992, Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe)
- La Femme Nikita (1990, Luc Besson)
- Manon of the Spring (1986, Claude Berri)
- Monsieur Hire (1989, Patrice Leconte)
- My Life in Pink (1997, Alain Berliner)
- One Swallow Brought Spring (2001, Christian Carion)
- Queen Margot (1994, Patrice Chéreau)
- Ridicule (1996, Patrice Leconte)
- Swimming Pool (2003, François Ozon)
- The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut)
- The Big Blue (1988, Luc Besson)
- The City of Lost Children (1995, Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro)
- The Closet (2001, Francis Veber)
- The Discrete Charm of the Bougoisie (1972, Luis Buñuel)
- The Dominici Affair (1972, Claude Bernard-Auberti)
- The Double Life of Veronique (1991, Krzysztof Kieslowsk)
- The Faboulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- The Girl on The Bridge (1999, Patrice Leconte)
- The Hate (1995, Matheiu Kassovitz)
- The Last Metro (1980, François Truffaut)
- The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
- The Reader (1988, Michel Deville)
- The Return of Martin Guerre (1982, Daniel Vigne)
- The Visitors (1993, Jean- Marie Poiré)
- Three Colours: Blue (1993, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Three Colours: Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Three Colours: White (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski) 
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, Julian Schnabel)
- Napoleon (1927, Abel Gance)
- L'argent (1928, Marcel L'Herbier)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel)
- Les Misérables (1934, Raymond Bernard)
- Pépé le Moko (1937, Julien Duvivier)
- La Grande Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)
- La salaire de la peur [The Wages of Fear] (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- Eyes Without a Face (1960, Georges Franju)
- Paris, Je T'Aime (2006, Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant)
- Un long dimanche de fiançailles [A very long engagement] (2004, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

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