Topic: Henri-Georges Clouzot

New on DVD: 'The Mechanic,' 'The Other Woman,' 'Beverly Hills Cop'

NY Daily News - 276 days ago
How do you know it's slim pickings on the DVD beat? When all the major releases are so generically named, you can barely remember what they were in...

Movie reviews: The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur)

Helium - 473 days ago
This is one of the few thrillers where the drama is more psychological than physical, and it works best that way. The psychological drama unfolds with surgical precision as the oil company hires four drivers, including Montand and the mysterious sabateur, to ...

A great director loses it before our eyes - and his - in the tantalizing wreckage of Henri-Georges Clouzot's aborted Inferno

Nashville Scene - 498 days ago
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of such classics as Le Corbeau, The Wages of Fear, and Diabolique (and considered "the French Hitchcock" by, among others, Hitchcock himself), embarked upon his most ambitious project to date. Miles away from the contemporaneous French ...

Les Diaboliques

Encyclopedia Britannica - 499 days ago
Les Diaboliques, (French: "The Devilish Ones") U.S. title Diabolique, French suspense film, released in 1955, that is considered a classic of the genre. Les Diaboliques is commonly compared to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, who reportedly tried to acquire movie rights ...

Killer French-Brit Noir Series Packs Heat Next Month at Belcourt

Nashville Scene - 758 days ago
In between, it hopscotches back and forth across the Channel from Michael Powell (the scandalous Peeping Tom) to Henri-Georges Clouzot (the proto-Psycho shocker Diabolique), with one director, Jules Dassin, represented in both French and English. Threading the series together are four films ...

Thomas Pierre Ayraud Narcejac

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 924 days ago
French writer of best-selling crime novels who collaborated with Pierre Boileau on 43 thrillers, about 100 short stories, and 4 plays; their Celle qui n'etait plus (1952) was filmed as Les Diaboliques (1954) by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and D'entre les morts ...

Sex, violence and classroom action

guardian.co.uk - 1255 days ago
They realise that they do have a choice, of sorts, about whether to submit to these rules.When McDowell finally opens up with a gun on the school, however, it is a bizarre moment of satire, with an edge of un-seriousness, fantasy ...

Le Corbeau

guardian.co.uk - 1298 days ago
In Nazi-occupied Paris, opening the door to the Gestapo offices reportedly became impossible because of the mountain of letters from Frenchmen denouncing each other. This clever, dyspeptic whodunnit from 1943 by Henri-Georges Clouzot, re-released as part of the BFI's retrospective season ...