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poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.8
/15858/
74
/342/
76
/347/
4.2
/43938/
96
/23/
87
/156/

My Night at Maud's (1969)
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.8
/37379/
75
/670/
77
/682/
4.0
/139284/
91
/35/
91
/436/

Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
77
7.4
/21765/
72
/363/
71
/430/
3.8
/38393/
90
/30/
88
/381/

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.
poster
Hoopla
72
47
7.7
/1690/
65
/26/
70
/46/
3.9
/3625/

All the World's Memory (1956)
A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
47
6.5
/1807/
56
/34/
64
/58/
3.4
/4910/
65

A Story of Water (1961)
A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
poster
Hoopla
75
45
6.9
/969/
61
/23/
65
/40/
3.6
/6208/
100
/11/
86
/5/

Olivia (1951)
"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Julie and the other head of the school Cara in its final months.
poster
Criterion Channel
61
44
6.5
/1917/
59
/27/
64
/54/
3.3
/4292/
54
/102/

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; while the man is trying his best to get her back in his life, then in the next sentence he says he hates her.
poster
64
44
6.5
/1906/
60
/53/
62
/65/
3.5
/4000/

The Mad Masters (1955)
The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial administrators. The participants performed the same elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance than true recreation.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
42
7.0
/2662/
66
/43/
66
/65/
3.4
/4885/
79
/7/

All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)
A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
38
7.5
/767/
67
/17/
69
/29/
4.0
/2823/

Love Exists (1960)
An essay film critiquing post-war France's urban developments- Pialat states that modernity and suburban convenience have limited Parisian freedom and widened class gaps.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
36
7.0
/1187/
57
/26/
63
/25/
3.6
/3059/

The Song of Styrene (1957)
Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.
poster
73
36
7.3
/1187/
65
/30/
73
/34/
3.8
/3719/
78
/4/

I, a Negro (1959)
Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.
poster
70
31
7.6
/400/
65
/12/
65
/16/
3.7
/1005/
71
/85/

The Human Pyramid (1961)
Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
30
6.9
/523/
61
/14/
62
/22/
3.6
/3584/

O Seasons, O Castles (1958)
A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
29
7.0
/1105/
68
/11/
64
/29/
3.5
/2277/
56
/2/

Fool’s Mate (1956)
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?
poster
63
18
7.2
/370/
51
/5/
62
/13/
3.5
/1021/

The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
Chris Marker and François Reichenbach document the massive anti–Vietnam War protest held in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967, where more than 100,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial before marching on the Pentagon. Filmed amid the crowd, the short captures the tension, idealism, and growing radicalism of the American peace movement.
poster
68
17
7.3
/277/
56
/11/
72
/13/
3.7
/898/

Little by Little (1970)
An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
poster
66
12
7.4
/263/
62
/7/
57
/12/
3.7
/485/

The Lion Hunters (1966)
Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa.
poster
67
12
7.0
/188/
62
/9/
64
/10/
3.6
/568/

America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960)
At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants, and their pastimes. The result is a journey through a multitude of different Americas, filtered through a French sensibility.
poster
?
10
/1/

Venir du Havre (1962)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

L'été Indien (1957)
Part of Reichenbach's series of short documentaries on America.
poster
?
10
/1/

L'américain se détend (1958)
Part of Reichenbach's series of short documentaries on America.
poster
?
10
/1/

Calligraphie Japonaise (1958)
In a comparative study between different forms of calligraphy, the film traces parallels between modern Japanese painting and traditional Japanese writing.
poster
?
6.9
/20/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Paris, A Winter's Day (1962)
Guy Gilles' 1962 short on the wintertime in Paris.
poster
?
4.8
/30/
10
/1/
40
/2/

I. You. They. (1973)
Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kept her in the fridge in order, as he said, to keep her safe from a hostile world!
poster
?
7.2
/6/
10
/1/

Impressions de New York (1956)
(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach offers a highly singular vision of the American megalopolis. (MIFF:) These are no ordinary travel notes brought back from America by filmmakers; they are not enthusiastic records of skyscrapers and crowds. but disturbing aspects of a hallucinatory world of concrete and metal, glaring light and haunting shadow. The film is notable for its dramatic use of colour, and music from Bela Bartok's ballet "The Miraculous Mandarin". (a-t:) F.B. confides in his memoir 'Le monde a encore un visage' (1981): "When I went to New York for the first time, I'd brought along a Bell & Howell 16mm camera whose instructions I hadn't read. I didn't know how to use the film, and inadvertently loaded some rolls that had already been printed, which resulted in these strange superimposed images. A well-known process that I had reinvented by accident".
poster
?
6.3
/18/
10
/1/

The Little Café (1963)
A day in a little café of Paris.
poster
?
4.8
/10/
10
/1/

Mamaia (1967)
The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of joyous rock-and-roll musicians, she's having a good time. But what with her fiancé?
poster
?
40
/2/
60
/1/

Le Paris des mannequins (1963)
A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants.
poster
63
?
6.7
/88/
50
/4/
67
/7/
3.5
/402/

The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows (1964)
One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s included in the anthology film That Tender Age (La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes). The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.
poster
?
13
/3/

L'art de la turlute (1969)
Some moments in the life of a young couple.
poster
?
5.2
/19/
10
/1/
80
/1/

J'ai tout donné (1972)
An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour.
poster
?
7.4
/5/
10
/1/

Nadia (1963)
Jean-Michel Barjol, a friend of Jean Eustache, was a young rebel who threw himself into cinema with reckless abandon. In this short film about a 16-year-old runaway, with whom the filmmaker clearly and empathically identified, Bariol inventively uses voiceover narration, documentary images, and jazz to create a sense of tumultuous yearning.
poster
?
6.4
/37/
43
/3/
60
/1/

In Memory of Rock (1963)
The rock-wild youth of the 1960s during the apparitions of their idols.
poster
?
10
/1/

La Frontière (1961)
Dedicated “to the exiled, proscribed, expelled, banned,” this montage of documentary images codirected and written by Jean Cayrol—a former deportee who wrote the commentary for Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog —makes the Spanish Civil War a synecdoche for all forms of brutal exclusion.
poster
?
10
/1/

Lomelin (1964)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Dunoyer de Ségonzac (1964)
N/A
poster
45
?
6.3
/32/
25
/2/
64
/18/

The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora (1965)
A young woman lives sadly in a small garrison town with a soldier. Little by little, won over by boredom, sadness, total inaction, she develops a relationship with plants and starts talking to plants.
poster
?
6.8
/50/
43
/3/
70
/2/

Directing Actors by Jean Renoir (1969)
A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.
poster
?
7.6
/17/
10
/1/
70
/2/

The Witnesses (1961)
This film brings to life a vanished world: that of the Warsaw Ghetto, destroyed by the Nazis after the 1944 uprising. Two authentic "reconstruction" sources have been used to this end: photographic and cinematographic documents recorded at the time and discovered in Poland, East Germany, Israel and France; and the oral testimonies of 44 survivors, invited to evoke their personal tragedy in front of the images put before their eyes.
poster
?
10
/1/

Croissance de Paris (1955)
N/A
poster
?
4.5
/25/
10
/1/

Night Women (1964)
A mondo-movie on the theme of women, with interviews and mock reports: plastic surgery, transvestites, Victoria Nanquin stripper, divorce and jealousy, dance classes, modeling school, nude modeling, prostitution in the woods, Miss Françoise masseuse, Miss Spaghetti contest.
poster
?
6.5
/9/
10
/1/

L'Emploi du temps (1967)
N/A
poster
Criterion Channel
53
?
6.2
/65/
33
/3/
3.4
/331/

500 Francs (1961)
A boy sees a 500-franc note under a sewer grate and tries to retrieve it.
poster
65
?
6.5
/175/
64
/5/
66
/7/
3.4
/480/

Janine (1962)
During a desultory night on the town, two men talk about their experiences with women. One of them disparages his ex-wife, while the other is enamored of the prostitute he was with earlier in the evening. Without realizing it, both men are talking about Janine.
poster
?
6.3
/11/
10
/1/

Bestiary of Love (1965)
If love is a universal phenomenon, it is never the same: the animal world experiences brutal and rapid unions, or, on the contrary, slow and difficult approaches, followed by sometimes interminable embraces.
poster
?
6.6
/48/
35
/2/
73
/3/

Fantasmagorie (1964)
In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless night. Her husband received a letter a few hours later asking him to go to a remote place for business, where he would have to spend the night. If he succeeds in reassuring his young wife, who has a presentiment of being separated for the first time from him, the first night spent in his host's house will topple everything.
poster
?
5.2
/17/
10
/1/
52
/5/

La Difficulté d'être infidèle (1964)
Olivier and Françoise, newlyweds, have Chantal at their service, whose main function is to pretend to be his boss, while she takes care of the housework. But Olivier is suddenly tempted by an extramarital affair with a young Italian woman, Frédérique. Pretending a business trip, he sends his wife and maid to their respective mothers, intending to bring Frédérique to his home...


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