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Nov 20, 2015 · Review: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties. on Criterion DVD. Criterion’s latest Eclipse set reveals an artist whose deceptively delicate touch helped French filmmaking transition into a new era of modernity. The first thing one notices upon encountering the world of Julien Duvivier is the mobility of his camera. Graceful and ...
Jun 27, 2018 · The Forgotten Auteur: Julien Duvivier. by Ben McCann. “Duvivier is ripe for rediscovery”, declares Ben McCann in the opening to his book on French filmmaker Julien Duvivier and indeed the cineaste is a welcome addition to the French Film Directors series published by Manchester University Press. The series itself is designed for students ...
Nov 15, 2015 · The Eclipse set Julien Duvivier in the Thirties offers up four of the director’s first sound films, starting with DavidGolder, released in 1930 and made a full decade after Duvivier’s first silent film. Though neither as well-known nor as accomplished of the director’s most popular feature, Pepe le moko , David Golder --and indeed, all of the quartet here--shows a skilled artist eager to ...
Julien Duvivier (1896-1967) was one of the most talented French film directors of the 1930s and a superb technician. His work was praised by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (“one of the best cinema artisans”), Michael Powell, Jean Renoir (“this great technician, this filmmaker of rigour who was also a poet”) and François Truffaut.
T he gloomiest of the poetic realist filmmakers of the 1930s, Julien Duvivier began work on his most sombre film of the decade just as Europe was about to be plunged into a second devastating conflagration, the first act of WWII. La Fin du jour would prove to be a depressingly apt title for a film made on the eve of a war that might well have brought a decisive end to human civilisation, if ...
Julien Duvivier is the forgotten man of French cinema. Prolific and bad-tempered, nicknamed “Julien-le-mal-aimé” (Julien the unloved), he careened from genre to genre, making thrillers, noirs, comedies, melodramas, and religious films during an almost fifty-year career of nonstop film production, leaving behind nearly seventy films when he died in 1967 after wrapping the tepid thriller ...
Nov 25, 2015 · The latest Eclipse set showcases a neglected master of pre-New Wave French film, Julien Duvivier; with four stylistically adventurous films of great emotional depth.
