Based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, Francois Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid was poorly received when released in the United States in April of 1970. This second homage to Hitchcock that Truffaut produced (after The Bride Wore Black), deserves a second look…
Aiming for a wider audience in 1961, the often overlooked director Jean-Pierre Melville (Les enfants terribles, Le samourai) adapted Beatrix Beck’s autobiographical novel The Passionate Heart. Set in a French village during World War II, Léon Morin, Priest is about…
(À bout de soufflé) Criterion | 1960 | 90 mins. | NR Fifty years after its premiere, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless remains relevant and seemingly in sync with contemporary cultural trends and mores. With his cool and sexy characters, who fired…