Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The Last Stand, the first American film by gifted Korean director Kim Ji-woon (I Saw The ...

U.S., 92 min., in English with French subtitles, with Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay. Anouk Aimée strikes a pose in the Model Shop. Based on the research I’ve done, I truly do believe that ...

Jacques Demy’s first films, from the nineteen-sixties—starting with “Lola” and including the musical melodrama “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”—were among the era’s prime works of stylish and stylized ...

that's available right at hand, to anyone with well tuned eyes. The movie itself does some of the tuning. Specifically, it's a story of love at first sight. making the best job you can out of the Army ...

So far I have watched four films at the Jacques Demy retrospective at Cinémathèque Québécoise. I did not like Model Shop, one of his English language fillms. But La Baie des Anges, Lola, and ...

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“People are always afraid of bad taste,” says French Writer-Director Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Demy certainly isn’t. He sprinkles it like contaminated pixy dust over little film fairy ...