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The films of
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Napoléon (1927) Abel Gance |
Le Million (1931) René Clair |
Quatorze Juillet (1933) René Clair |
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| One of the most ambitious films in cinema history, Abel Gance’s epic six-hour long Napoléon is both a stunningly visual work of cinema and a poetically beautiful telling of the life of France’s most... [More...] | Rated as René Clair’s comic masterpiece, the original template for the Hollywood musicals, and one of the best of the early sound films... [More...] | Is there a film that evokes the romance and poetry of Paris more vividly than René Clair’s effortlessly alluring Quatorze Juillet? As in his earlier Sous les toit de Paris (1930)... [More...] |
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Les Nuits moscovites (1934) Alexis Granowsky |
La Bandera (1935) Julien Duvivier |
Hôtel du Nord (1938) Marcel Carné |
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| With its atmospheric chiaroscuro photography, impressive cast and meticulous attention to period detail (not to mention some stunning montage WWI battle sequences)... [More...] | La Bandera is one of Julien Duvivier’s most memorable films, providing a satisfying and early example of poetic realism, albeit in a setting far removed from contemporary France... [More...] | This doom-laden, intensely atmospheric film epitomises the poetic realism of French cinema of the late 1930s. Master of the genre, Marcel Carné creates a shadowy world where the harsh realities of an unsympathetic... [More...] |
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13 Rue Madeleine (1947) Henry Hathaway |
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| 13 Rue Madeleine is an informative documentary-style drama that was intended to promote the wartime exploits of the Office of Strategic Services (which became the CIA in 1947)... [More...] |
