Most of the best films/movies ever made are pre-1990; many, pre-1960; some pre-1940. We show the best. Great directors from any decade and country (Renoir, Ophüls, Hawks, Almodóvar, Reed, Bergman, Ray, Wilder, Ozu, Truffaut, Hitchcock, Buñuel, Visconti, Tarkovsky, Powell & Pressburger, ...). Full-size silver screen at the Wells Film Centre, Monday and Tuesday, every 4 weeks throughout the year.
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Next film: Mon-Tues 5-6 March
Site updated: Thu 9 Feb 2012
What’s it about?
Pre-WW I, two writers, Jules (German, or is he Austrian?) and Jim (Parisian), meet the an older woman (Jeanne Moreau) and form a threesome of constantly changing patterns of love and friendship, centred around the mercurial Catherine.
What some have said:
VFG: “Francois Truffaut's greatest achievement ... is a shrine to lovers who have known obsession and been destroyed by it ... Moreau [delivers] one of the most memorable performances in screen history”, 5*.
RT: “... a virtuoso technical performance from François Truffaut ... The masterpiece of a genius”, 5*.
EFG: “... this masterpiece ... ”, 5*.
DP: “... [his] feeling for cinema has the quickness of instinct ...a film about the impossibility of freedom.”
Some on-line reviews: IMDB, Wikipedia.
(TOFG, VFG, 1001, EFG, H1000, RT, BN100, DP, NYFCC, DT, ...? What do these acronyms mean?)
