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1 day ago · Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, directed by Jacques Demy and awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964, returns to dazzle audiences in a new form. This musical drama, starring a ...
4 days ago · Collaboration played a key role in Varda's career. One notable partnership was with her husband, Jacques Demy. Their artistic union resulted in films that complemented and contrasted each other’s styles. Varda's Jacquot de Nantes is a heartfelt homage to Demy’s childhood and early cinematic influences.
3 days ago · French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor.
2 days ago · The series included screenings of this classic and two other collaborations between director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort and Peau d’Âne. We were honored to have Demy’s sister Hélène join us for the final screening.
5 days ago · She played the lead in Jacques Demy’s Lola (1961), a love story set in Nantes, which David Thomson calls “The most magical of the New Wave films.” Perhaps her most memorable role was as Anne Gauthier in Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman , for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, the first by an actor in a French-language film.
11 hours ago · Der Regisseur Jacques Demy hoffte, an seinen Kassenhit „Die Regenschirme von Cherbourg“ (1964) anknüpfen zu können. Die Musik hatte wieder der bewährte Michel Legrand geschrieben.
4 days ago · Because when it comes to film, it’s the directors who interest her. Antonioni and Fellini. Truffaut and Jacques Demy in France, and in Britain and America, Orson Welles, Richard Lester, Arthur Payne, and Tony Richardson. The film that’s impressed her the most recently? N ext Time I’ll Sing for You, [a stage play] by James Saunders. She ...
