H.-G Clouzot
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Explores the mind and motivations of Pablo Picasso as he creates over fifteen works before the camera. Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera records. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush stroke. He then progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements, transforming the entire scene, until at last the work...
2) Diabolique
Series
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.
3) Le corbeau
Series
Criterion collection ; 227
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Français
Description
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt.
Series
Criterion collection ; 36
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
Français
Description
A drama of courage, cowardice and failure set in South America. Four desperate men attempt to transport two truck-loads of nitro-glycerine 300 miles to the site of an oil well fire.
Series
Criterion collection ; 193
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
Series
Criterion collection ; 35
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.