Les Diaboliques Pedro Blas Gonzalez November 2011 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 61 Les Diaboliques (1955) is a tale of cold-blooded, calculated murder and suspense. Murder and suspense are always billed together in this kind of...
Quai des Orfèvres David Sanjek November 2011 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 61 During the course of a conversation in the crime drama Quai des Orfèvres (1947) between the photographer Dora Monier (Simone Renant) and the...
Le Corbeau Tony Williams November 2011 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 61 As Alan Williams notes, “Le Corbeau is an essential work for world film history, if only because its meanings are still being debated” (1)....
L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot Darragh O’Donoghue November 2011 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 61 The idea of the lost or broken film is central to cinephilia, but its implications are ambiguous. On the one hand, it allows the film lover to...
Le Mystère Picasso Wheeler Winston Dixon November 2011 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 61 At first glance, it might seem that a film about Picasso should have been directed by anyone other than Henri-Georges Clouzot, the famous misanthrope...
The Wages of Fear Murray Pomerance November 2011 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 61 “Let me tell you the story”, Henri-Georges Clouzot appears to be offering in Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear, 1953), “of four strange...
The Wages of Fear Jonathan Dawson November 2011 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 61 “You don’t know what fear is. But you’ll see. It’s catching. It’s catching like smallpox. And once you get it, it’s for life.” -...
Henri-Georges Clouzot Fiona Watson July 2005 Great Directors Issue 36 b. November 20, 1907, Niort, France d. January 12, 1977, Paris, France Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Darkness Visible You...
