Tag Archives: Gérard Philippe

a quality film de papa (film: Les orgueilleux – Yves Allégret & Rafael E. Portas, 1953)

Yves Allégret, the director of the Franco-Mexican co-production ‘Les orgueilleux‘ (known in English distribution as ‘The Proud and the Beautiful’) was in the 1950s one of the preferred target of the critics of future French New Wave filmmakers. He directed … Continue reading

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a fantasy movie in the 1900 Vienna (film: La Ronde – Max Ophüls, 1950)

The year was 1950 and film director Max Ophüls was returning to Europe. He had spent the decade of the 1940s in the United States, where between 1947 and 1949 he had made four films. He was returning to France, … Continue reading

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