A master of suspense admired even by Hitchcock, Henri-Georges Clouzot is famous for acid-tinged thrillers about cold-blooded murder and ugly politics, whether in a French town or a Latin American oil field. But his early writing career was quite different: he provided the scenarios and dialogue for ten years’ worth of clever farces and affecting melodramas, often with musical numbers.
Clouzot The Early Works
Blu-ray
My Cousin from Warsaw, Dragnet Night, The Unknown Singer, I’ll Be Alone After Midnight, The Terror of Batignolles, Tell Me Tonight, Dream Castle
Kino Lorber Kino Classics
1931- 1933 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 511 min.
Street Date November 20, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot
If one digs into older movies away from the usual standard titles, the history of filmmaking opens up like a grand epic. All those acknowledged French masterpieces of the 1930s weren’t necessarily the popular norm. Just as in America,...
Clouzot The Early Works
Blu-ray
My Cousin from Warsaw, Dragnet Night, The Unknown Singer, I’ll Be Alone After Midnight, The Terror of Batignolles, Tell Me Tonight, Dream Castle
Kino Lorber Kino Classics
1931- 1933 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 511 min.
Street Date November 20, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot
If one digs into older movies away from the usual standard titles, the history of filmmaking opens up like a grand epic. All those acknowledged French masterpieces of the 1930s weren’t necessarily the popular norm. Just as in America,...
- 11/24/2018
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