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Zazie dans le metro (1960, Louis Malle)
“I just got enganged.” “Are you pregnant?” “Not yet, but we’re getting married anyway” Awesomely insane comedy following a girl (Zazie, who apparently had a cameo the following year in A Woman is a...
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The Fire Within (1963, Louis Malle)
“Tomorrow I kill myself.” The score by Erik Satie probably sounds familiar because it was used in a Wilson brothers scene in “Royal Tenenbaums”. Luke W. later tries to kill himself right after quoting...
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Black Moon (1975, Louis Malle)
“All is illusion. Set us free of this world.” A badger on the road is run down by a small orange car driven by Lily, hiding her identity beneath a hat and bulky coat, driving through the midst of a...
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Spirits of the Dead (1968, Vadim/Malle/Fellini)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the title on the print, and IMDB calls it Histoires extraordinaires. An anthology film with three shorts based on Edgar Allen Poe stories, its reputation is of a...
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A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
I’ve been watching Bresson’s earliest films in order, culminating in this extras-packed blu-ray of A Man Escaped. When I first started watching Bresson films (Au Hazard Balthazar, Lancelot of the Lake,...
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My Dinner With Andre (1981, Louis Malle)
Opens with Wallace Shawn in voiceover – he’s a playwright taking acting gigs, doing odd errands, going to dinner tonight with a man he’s been avoiding for years, once a friend and colleague and a...
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