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Jacques Demy. Jacques Demy ( French pronunciation: [ʒak dəmi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse ...
- Griffith Observatory. The iconic park and planetarium north of Hollywood plays a key role in La La Land. “I love Griffith on a very personal level,” director Damien Chazelle says.
- David Hockney. Los Angeles is a nirvana of sunbaked swimming pools in the 1960s- and ’70s-era paintings of British artist Hockney. His work, including A Bigger Splash (above), made waves in Chazelle’s mind, especially for an early musical set piece in which a bunch of partygoers (and the camera) get wet and wild.
- Los Angeles Traffic. For the movie’s virtuoso opening scene, Chazelle thought of the least romantic L.A. trait — and turned it into a spectacular song-and-dance number.
- Pulp Fiction (1994) Chazelle wanted La La Land to take place in the real world of Los Angeles but still feel like a not-quite-real fantasia. So he hired Quentin Tarantino’s favored production designer David Wasco.
Jun 18, 2024 · Jacques Demy (born June 5, 1931, Pont-Château, France—died Oct. 27, 1990, Paris) was a French director best known for his romantic musical-comedy films. Demy studied for two years at France’s Technical School of Photography and Cinematography and then was an assistant to animator Paul Grimault (1952–54) and to director Georges Roquier ...
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Jun 29, 2024 · Using unconventional techniques, such as breaking the fourth wall, jumpcuts, on-location shooting and handheld filming, they transformed cinema. While the French New Wave stood in opposition to the mainstream, these directors were still greatly influenced by many elements of classic Hollywood. Jacques Demy is slightly less appreciated within ...
May 22, 2003 · Prologue. Jacques Demy’s films inhabit worlds in themselves—personal and imaginary worlds, self-contained and organic. Demy’s legacy may lack consistent quality, but not consistent personal vision: while his contemporaries abandoned poetry for politics, Demy remained faithful to the romanticism of his boyhood projects.
Influenced perhaps by Max Ophuls (to whom his first feature was dedicated), Demy keeps his camera in almost constant movement, smoothly and fluidly sweeping around or along with the characters. The result is a camera style that is continually responding or adjusting to the characters, altering relationships between them, bringing them together ...
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Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility ...
