Tagged: Jean-Paul Belmondo
The World War II genre lends itself to sprawling epic movies. From big battle scenes to politics and romance to clear distinctions between good and evil, the genre has something for everyone. The film Is Paris Burning? fits in that...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Le Magnifique originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. While Francois Merlin’s escapist fantasy is presented as if this were entirely a comic spy movie – the...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Breathless originally ran as part of our reader-voted Top 100 Movies list. Jean-Luc Godard’s most famous film, Breathless follows the brief love affair between a man on the...
The past month has hardly been lacking in quality viewing for me – I feel like I’m still digesting Basic Instinct, which I saw for the first time two weeks ago and very much look forward to revisiting down the...
I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. I studied the French New...
