Cécile Decugis, one of the key early figures of the French New Wave, passed away June 11, according to El Watan, the French-language newspaper in Algeria. The news only started to spread throughout the film world when fellow editor and protege Mary Stephens paid tribute to the Decugis in a Facebook post.
At the dawn of the New Wave in 1957, Decugis edited a young Francois Truffaut’s short film “Les Mistons,” which is largely credited as being the first film in which Truffaut found his cinematic voice and being a key early short of the film movement that would dominate international cinema in the ’60s.
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Decugis also edited Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature, “Breathless,” one the most important pieces of editing in film history and the movie that made Godard a filmmaking sensation. Although the film...
At the dawn of the New Wave in 1957, Decugis edited a young Francois Truffaut’s short film “Les Mistons,” which is largely credited as being the first film in which Truffaut found his cinematic voice and being a key early short of the film movement that would dominate international cinema in the ’60s.
Read More: Jean-Luc Godard’s Rare, Early Film, ‘Une Femme Coquette,’ Appears on YouTube — Watch
Decugis also edited Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature, “Breathless,” one the most important pieces of editing in film history and the movie that made Godard a filmmaking sensation. Although the film...
- 7/25/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Director Michel Hazanavicius has unveiled the first teaser for his upcoming romance drama “Redoubtable.” In his latest project, the filmmaker behind the Oscar darling “The Artist” takes on the life of legendary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, who has created iconic masterpieces such as “Breathless” and “A Woman Is a Woman.” Godard is portrayed by Louis Garrel (“The Dreamers,” “Love Songs,” “The Beautiful Person”).
Read More: Louis Garrel Channels Jean-Luc Godard In First Pics From Michel Hazanavicius’ Romance ‘Redoubtable’
Based on the autobiography “Un An Après” by Anne Wiazemsky, the biopic centers around the romance that flourished between her and Godard when they were making the 1967 film “La Chinoise.” They married shortly after and collaborated on “Week End” and “Sympathy for the Devil” before divorcing in 1979.
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Wiazemsky is played by “Nymphomaniac” actress Stacy Martin. The film also stars Hazanavicius’ wife Bérénice Bejo,...
Read More: Louis Garrel Channels Jean-Luc Godard In First Pics From Michel Hazanavicius’ Romance ‘Redoubtable’
Based on the autobiography “Un An Après” by Anne Wiazemsky, the biopic centers around the romance that flourished between her and Godard when they were making the 1967 film “La Chinoise.” They married shortly after and collaborated on “Week End” and “Sympathy for the Devil” before divorcing in 1979.
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Wiazemsky is played by “Nymphomaniac” actress Stacy Martin. The film also stars Hazanavicius’ wife Bérénice Bejo,...
- 3/29/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
Jean-Luc Godard has directed more than 100 films, but for completists there’s been one title that’s unavailable … until it showed up on YouTube this week. “Une Femme Coquette,” a no-budget short made in 1955 when Godard was 24, was posted on February 15 by user David Heslin, and discovered by our friends over at The A.V. Club.
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The film, based on a Guy De Maupassant short story, was Godard’s first shot at a narrative. It’s often listed as lost by biographers, and the find is tremendously significant for French New Wave enthusiasts. There are also several easter eggs in the work for Godard fans: the director cameos two minutes in, the story is later re-adapted in Godard’s 1966 film “Masculin Féminin,” and the work itself is credited to his film-critic pseudonym, Hans Lucas.
Just five years after shooting “Une Femme Coquette,...
Read More: That Movie About Jean-Luc Godard’s Second Marriage is Misguided
The film, based on a Guy De Maupassant short story, was Godard’s first shot at a narrative. It’s often listed as lost by biographers, and the find is tremendously significant for French New Wave enthusiasts. There are also several easter eggs in the work for Godard fans: the director cameos two minutes in, the story is later re-adapted in Godard’s 1966 film “Masculin Féminin,” and the work itself is credited to his film-critic pseudonym, Hans Lucas.
Just five years after shooting “Une Femme Coquette,...
- 2/18/2017
- by William Earl
- Indiewire
Une Femme Coquette may not sound like anything special—a 9-minute no-budget short film, shot on a borrowed 16mm camera by a 24-year-old amateur with no formal film school training. But the short, which was the subject of our article “Neither lost nor found: On the trail of an elusive icon’s rarest film” back in 2014, has for decades been a sought-after item for art-house buffs and rare movie fiends. Filmed in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955, it was the first attempt at a narrative film by the iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard—a pivotal figure in the evolution of movie style, who would make his feature debut just five years later, with the hugely influential and perennially cool Breathless.
Never distributed, Une Femme Coquette has had less than half a dozen public screenings since the 1960s; we were able to track down the only known 16mm print ...
Never distributed, Une Femme Coquette has had less than half a dozen public screenings since the 1960s; we were able to track down the only known 16mm print ...
- 2/17/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old.
Back in 2014, I did a long-ish piece for this site called “Neither lost nor found: On the trail of an elusive icon’s rarest film,” about my fascination with the 1955 short film Une Femme Coquette, a very early work by the French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. The prose could be cleaner, but it’s probably some of the best writing I’ve done in my three years as staff film critic for The A.V. Club. In terms of personal favorites, I’d rank it second to a still-incomplete essay that I hope to finish and publish soon—a sort of counter-history of film that has taken a lot of research, and is the reason why I ...
Back in 2014, I did a long-ish piece for this site called “Neither lost nor found: On the trail of an elusive icon’s rarest film,” about my fascination with the 1955 short film Une Femme Coquette, a very early work by the French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. The prose could be cleaner, but it’s probably some of the best writing I’ve done in my three years as staff film critic for The A.V. Club. In terms of personal favorites, I’d rank it second to a still-incomplete essay that I hope to finish and publish soon—a sort of counter-history of film that has taken a lot of research, and is the reason why I ...
- 2/17/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
The titles have started to roll in for 2015's editions of Sundance and Rotterdam—we've got all the developments covered here and here.
Above: a new trailer for Inherent Vice. If that's not enough, here are 6 clips from the film for your enjoyment. For his blog, David Bordwell argues that "visual storytelling is seldom purely visual":
"...film needs both sound and more impalpable factors—context, familiar situations, genre conventions—to work. And those factors in turn depend on our knowledge of conceptual structures (schemas) that the film prompts us to lock in. As usual, narrative movies provide the audience an instruction kit, coaxing us to apply our knowledge to a fresh instance. In other words, the eye is part of the brain."
There's a new issue online at desistfilm featuring an interview with the late Peter Von Bagh, a feature on Jeanne Liotta, a discussion about screen formats, and more.
Above: a new trailer for Inherent Vice. If that's not enough, here are 6 clips from the film for your enjoyment. For his blog, David Bordwell argues that "visual storytelling is seldom purely visual":
"...film needs both sound and more impalpable factors—context, familiar situations, genre conventions—to work. And those factors in turn depend on our knowledge of conceptual structures (schemas) that the film prompts us to lock in. As usual, narrative movies provide the audience an instruction kit, coaxing us to apply our knowledge to a fresh instance. In other words, the eye is part of the brain."
There's a new issue online at desistfilm featuring an interview with the late Peter Von Bagh, a feature on Jeanne Liotta, a discussion about screen formats, and more.
- 12/10/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
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