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Made in France as director Berry was blacklisted in Hollywood Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida: André Hunebelle: Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre: Comedy: That Night: Maurice Cazeneuve: Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Ronet, Jean Servais: Crime: White Cargo: Georges Lacombe: Françoise Arnoul, Renée Faure, Jean-Claude Michel: Crime ...
Le Beau Serge (French pronunciation: [lə bo sɛʁʒ], literal English translation: "Handsome Serge") is a 1958 French film directed by Claude Chabrol.It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, film movement.
French New Wave is influenced by Italian Neorealism [2] and classical Hollywood cinema. [2] In a 1961 interview, Truffaut said that "the 'New Wave' is neither a movement, nor a school, nor a group, it's a quality" and in December 1962 published a list of 162 film directors who had made their feature film debut since 1959. Many of these ...
Le Beau Serge is credited as the first French New Wave feature. February 16 – In the Money by William Beaudine is released. It will be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began in 1946. February 27 – Harry Cohn, the remaining founder of Columbia Pictures and one of the last remaining Hollywood movie moguls, dies.
Elevator to the Gallows (French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), also known as Frantic in the US and Lift to the Scaffold in the UK, is a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel after one of them becomes trapped in an elevator.
This film pioneered the use of evocative jump cuts and non-professional actors, two traits that Jean-Luc Godard would use to craft his film Breathless and shape the French New Wave. Godard argued that the film had reached "unprecedented levels of truth captured on film" in a March 1959 edition of the magazine Arts, [10] and later ranked Moi, un ...
Maigret Sets a Trap (French: Maigret tend un piège) is a 1958 French-Italian crime film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot and Olivier Hussenot. [1] It is an adaptation of the novel Maigret Sets a Trap by Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his fictional detective Jules Maigret.
The Lovers (French: Les amants) is a 1958 French drama film directed by Louis Malle which stars Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, and Jean-Marc Bory.Based on the posthumously-published 1876 short story "Point de Lendemain" ("No Tomorrow") by Dominique Vivant (1747–1825), the film concerns a woman involved in adultery who rediscovers human love.