1956
D: Albert Lamorisse
C: Pascal Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov, Paul Perey, René Marion, Sabine Lamorisse, Michel Pezin
W: Albert Lamorisse
Original Music: Maurice Leroux
Cinematography: Edmond Séchan
Editing: Pierre Gillette
Runtime: 34 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Unrated
An allegory on nonconformism, good and evil, friendship, and loneliness about a Parisian child’s love for a big red balloon that follows [...]
1934
D: Jean Vigo
C: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre, Maurice Gilles, Raphaël Diligent
W: Jean Guinée; Albert Riéra & Jean Vigo (dialogue)
Original Music: Maurice Jaubert
Cinematography: Jean-Paul Alphen, Louis Berger & Boris Kaufman
Editor: Louis Chavance
Runtime: 89 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Unrated
A riverboat captain, Jean [...]
1967
D: Luis Buñuel
C: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian, Macha Méril, Muni, Maria Latour, Claude Cerval, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Marcel Charvey, François Maistre, Francisco Rabal, Georges Marchal, Francis Blanche
W: Luis Buñuel & Jean-Claude Carrière; Joseph Kessel(novel)
Cinematography: Sacha Vierny
Editor: Louisette Hautecoeur
Runtime: 101 min
Country: France / Italy
Language: Spanish [...]
1970
D: Claude Chabrol
C: Claude Chabrol
W: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara, William Guérault, Roger Rudel
Original Music: Pierre Jansen
Cinematography: Jean Rabier
Editor: Jacques Gaillard
Runtime: 93 min
Country: France / Italy
Language: French
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: GP
A lonely headmistress in a small town believes the local butcher, whom she recently hit [...]
1964
D: Jean Luc Godard
C: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Louisa Colpeyn, Georges Staquet, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Makovski, Michel Delahaye, Ernest Menzer, Danièle Girard
W: Jean-Luc Godard; Dolores Hitchens (novel)
Original Music: Michel Legrand
Cinematography: Raoul Coutard
Editor: Francoise Collin
Runtime: 95 min
Country: France
Language: French / English
Color: Black and White / Color
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Not Rated
This homage to American gangster [...]
1959
D: François Truffaut
C: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay, Daniel Couturier, François Nocher, Richard Kanayan, Renaud Fontanarosa, Michel Girard, Henry Moati, Bernard Abbou, Jean-François Bergouignan, Michel Lesignor, Luc Andrieux, Robert Beauvais, Bouchon, Christian Brocard, Yvonne Claudie, Marius Laurey, Claude Mansard, Jacques Monod, Pierre Repp, Henri Virlojeux
W: François Truffaut (scenario); Marcel [...]
1985
D: Lasse Hallström
C: Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén, Melinda Kinnaman, Kicki Rundgren, Lennart Hjulström, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Leif Ericson, Christina Carlwind, Ralph Carlsson, Viveca Dahlén, Arnold Alfredson, Fritz Elofsson, Didrik Gustavsson, Jan-Philip Hollström, Vivi Johansson, Per Ottosson, Magnus Rask, Tony Rix, Manfred Serner, Johanna Udéhn, Susanna Wetterholm
W: Reidar Jönsson (novel); Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jönsson, [...]
1983
D: Jean Becker
C: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Clève, Maria Machado, Evelyne Didi, Jean Gaven, François Cluzet, Manuel Gélin, Roger Carel, Michel Galabru, Marie-Pierre Casey, Cécile Vassort
W: Jean Becker & Sébastien Japrisot (also novel)
Original Music: Georges Delerue
Cinematography: Étienne Becker
Editing: Jacques Witta
Runtime: 130 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Sound Mix: Stereo
Certification: [...]
2003
D: François Ozon
C: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Jean-Marie Lamour, Marc Fayolle, Mireille Mossé, Michel Fau, Jean-Claude Lecas, Emilie Gavois-Kahn, Erarde Forestali, Lauren Farrow, Sebastian Harcombe, Frances Cuka, Keith Yeates, Tricia Aileen, Glen Davies
W: François Ozon (screenplay)
Original Music: Philippe Rombi
Cinematography: Yorick Le Saux
Editing: Monica Coleman
Runtime: 102 min
Country: France / UK
Language: English / French
Color: Color
Aspect [...]
1982
D: Jan Troell
C: Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz, Eva von Hanno, Lotta Larsson, Clément Harari, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Jan-Olof Strandberg, Henric Holmberg, Mimi Pollak, Siv Ericks, Ulla Sjöblom, Knut Husebø, Peter Schildt, Ingvar Kjellson, Lasse Pöysti
Writing: Per Olof Sundman (novel); Georg Oddner, Ian Rakoff, Klaus Rifbjerg & Jan Troell
Original Music: Carl-Axel Dominique & [...]
1976
D: Bernardo Bertolucci
C: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Laura Betti, Werner Bruhns, Stefania Casini, Sterling Hayden, Anna Henkel, Ellen Schwiers, Alida Valli, Romolo Valli,
Stefania Sandrelli, Donald Sutherland, Burt Lancaster
Writing: Franco Arcalli, Bernardo Bertolucci & Giuseppe Bertolucci
Original Music: Ennio Morricone
Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro
Runtime: 245 min
Country: France / Italy / West Germany
Language: Italian / [...]
1963
D: Akira Kurosawa
C: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Takeshi Katô, Takashi Shimura, Jun Tazaki, Nobuo Nakamura, Yûnosuke Itô, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Unayama
Writing: Eijirô Hisaita
Original Music: Masaru Satô
Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai & Takao Saitô
Runtime: 142 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Color: Black and White / Color (Eastmancolor) (inserts only)
Sound Mix: Mono [...]
1953
D: Ingmar Bergman
C: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese, Åke Grönberg,Sigge Fürst, John Harryson
Writing: Ingmar Bergman & Per Anders Fogelström (also novel) (both uncredited)
Original Music: Les Baxter (US version), Erik Nordgren, Eskil Eckert-Lundin & Walle Söderlund
Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer
Runtime: 96 min / USA:62 min (re-edited version)
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: [...]
1958
D: Louis Malle
C: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisèle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup, Marcel Cuvelier, Gérard Darrieu, Charles Denner, Hubert Deschamps
Writing: Noël Calef (novel); Louis Malle & Roger Nimier
Original Music: Miles Davis
Cinematography: Henri Decaë
Runtime: 88 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric [...]
1970
D: Bernardo Bertolucci
C: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, José Quaglio, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clémenti, Yvonne Sanson, Giuseppe Addobbati
Writing: Alberto Moravia (novel); Bernardo Bertolucci (screenplay)
Original Music: Georges Delerue
Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro
Runtime: 115 min / 120 min (1995 Restoration)
Country: Italy / France / West Germany
Language: Italian
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: R
1930’s Italy. Fascists [...]
1963
D: Louis Malle
C: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Mona Dol, Pierre Moncorbier, René Dupuy, Bernard Tiphaine, Bernard Noël, Ursula Kubler, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Mottet, François Gragnon, Romain Bouteille, Jacques Sereys, Alexandra Stewart, Claude Deschamps, Tony Taffin, Henri Serre
Writing: Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (novel); Louis Malle
Non-Original Music: Erik Satie
Cinematography: Ghislain Cloquet
Runtime: [...]
1967
D: Jean-Pierre Melville
C: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Michel Boisrond, Robert Favart, Jean-Pierre Posier, Catherine Jourdan, Roger Fradet, Carlo Nell, Robert Rondo, André Salgues, André Thorent
Writing: Joan McLeod (novel The Ronin); Jean-Pierre Melville & Georges Pellegrin (screenplay)
Original Music: François de Roubaix
Cinematography: Henri Decaë
Runtime: 101 min
Country: France / Italy
Language: French
Color: Color [...]
1959
D: Georges Franju
C: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Charles Blavette, Claude Brasseur, Michel Etcheverry, Yvette Etiévant, René Génin
Writing: Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Claude Sautet, Jean Redon (adaptation); Pierre Gascar (dialogue); Jean Redon (novel)
Original Music: Maurice Jarre
Cinematography: Eugen Schüfftan
Runtime: 88 min
Country: France / Italy
Language: French
Color: Black and [...]
1953
D: Henri-Georges Clouzot
C: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Antonio Centa, Darling Légitimus, Luis De Lima, Jo Dest, Darío Moreno, Faustini, Seguna, William Tubbs, Véra Clouzot, Folco Lulli
Writing: Georges Arnaud (novel); Henri-Georges Clouzot & Jérôme Géronimi (screenplay)
Original Music: Georges Auric
Cinematography: Armand Thirard
Runtime: 131 min / France:156 min / 148 min (director’s cut)
Country: France / [...]
2004
D: Stephen Chow
C: Stephen Chow, Xiaogang Feng, Wah Yuen, Zhi Hua Dong, Kwok Kuen Chan, Chi Chung Lam, Siu-Lung Leung, Qiu Yuen, Kai Man Tin, Kang Xi Jia, Hak On Fung, Shengyi Huang, Suet Lam,Cheung-Yan Yuen, Chi Ling Chiu, Yu Xing, Yibai Zhang, Si Lu Ren, Xiao Lung Ding, Ming Ming Zhang, Oliver Wong, [...]
1975
D: Akira Kurosawa
C: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov
Writing: Vladimir Arsenyev (memoir, Dersu Uzala); Akira Kurosawa & Yuri Nagibin (screenplay)
Original Music: Isaak Shvarts
Cinematography: Fyodor Dobronravov, Yuri Gantman & Asakazu Nakai
Runtime: 141 min / Soviet Union:144 min
Country: Soviet Union / Japan
Language: Russian
Color: Color (Sovcolor)
Sound Mix: 70 mm 6-Track
***Spoiler [...]
1956
D: Robert Bresson
C: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau, Roger Treherne, Jean Philippe Delamarre, César Gattegno, Jacques Oerlemans, Klaus Detlef Grevenhorst, Leonhard Schmidt
Writing: Robert Bresson (screenplay); André Devigny (memoir)
Cinematography: Léonce-Henri Burel
Runtime: 99 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
A member of the French Resistance is captured [...]
1971
D: Jan Troell
C: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Svenolof Bern, Aina Alfredsson, Allan Edwall,Monica Zetterlund, Pierre Lindstedt, Hans Alfredson, Ulla Smidje, Eva-Lena Zetterlund, Gustaf Färingborg, Åke Fridell, Agneta Prytz, Halvar Björk, Arnold Alfredson, Bror Englund, Tom C. Fouts
Writing: Bengt Forslund, Vilhelm Moberg (novels Utvandrarna & Invandrarna), Jan Troell
Original Music: Erik Nordgren
Cinematography: Jan Troell
Runtime: [...]
1972
D: Jan Troell
C: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Pierre Lindstedt, Allan Edwall, Monica Zetterlund, Hans Alfredson, Agneta Prytz, Halvar Björk, Tom C. Fouts, Peter Lindgren, Per Oscarsson, Oscar Ljung, Karin Nordström, Larry Clementson, Georg Anaya
Writing: Bengt Forslund, Vilhelm Moberg (novel), Jan Troell
Original Music: Bengt Ernryd, Georg Oddner
Cinematography: Jan Troell
Runtime: 102 min
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Color: [...]
1949
D: Jean-Pierre Melville
C: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe, Georges Patrix, Denis Sadier
Writing: Jean-Pierre Melville; Vercors (short story)
Original Music: Edgar Bischoff
Cinematography: Henri Decaë
Runtime: 88 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
Melville’s feature-length directorial debut, and my second favorite (after les Enfants Terribles) of all his films.
It’s set in a small occupied [...]