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Jan 22, 2016 · Perennially ripe for rediscovery, Julien Duvivier (1896-1967) was a prolific if uneven filmmaker with a five-decade career that included a short stint in Hollywood and encompassed a variety of genres.
“Genius is just a word; filmmaking is a craft.”-Julien Duvivier Jean Renoir once proclaimed, “If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the cinema, I would place a statue of (Julien) Duvivier above the entrance. . . . This great technician, this rigorist, was a poet.” The French director and screenwriter Julien Duvivier (1896–1967), whose astonishingly varied career ...
Dec 18, 2018 · H alf a century before Julien Duvivier made his 1946 film Panique, the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon published his influential study of mob behavior, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, in which he argued that recent upheavals in scientific and religious belief and increasing urbanization made individuals more susceptible to a contagion of “impulsiveness, irritability ...
Whilst it is notionally a comedy-drama rather than a straight drama, La Fin du jour offers little in the way of comic relief. It deals with the most depressing of subjects, and one to which cinema tends to give a wide berth: the trauma of growing old. Duvivier and his esteemed screenwriter Charles Spaak (the team that had previously brought us ...
Feb 15, 2022 · Directed by Julien Duvivier. Filmmaker Julien Duvivier was not well-known or taught in film school in the 1970s, which was a big mistake: the level of sophistication in his silent films often betters the work of the ‘world masters’ of European filmmaking, let alone Hollywood’s factory-built product of the Golden Age.
Panique: Directed by Julien Duvivier. With Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Émile Drain. After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.
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 ...
