Posted in Novel, tagged Decadent, French, Gilles de Rais, History, Occult on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Damned/Là-bas (1891)
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Pages: 320 pages
I had this book on my Amazon wish list for a long time even though I didn’t know much about it except for it to be about Gilles de Rais and satanism. When I visited the fascinating Gustave Moreau Museum [...]
Posted in Film, tagged French, Gothic, Horror on January 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Les Yeux sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face)
Directed by: Georges Franju
Release: 1959
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob
More gothic gems~ Finally saw this legendary French arthouse horror classics Eyes Without a Face. The premise: a doctor’s beautiful daughter was disfigured in a car accident caused by himself. The title of the film refers to the iconic image [...]
Posted in Film, tagged Catherine Deneuve, Fairytale, French, Girly, Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand on December 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Donkey Skin (1970)
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Written by: Jacques Demy, Charles Perrault
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais
Finally get to see the 2004 digital restored version of the 1970 French film on DVD. Directed by The Umbrella of Cherbourg’s Jacques Demy, it also starred the impossibly beautiful and elegant Catherine Deneuve~ It is a lovely, magical, innocent [...]
Posted in Film, tagged 60s, Catherine Deneuve, French, Girly, Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand, Romance on December 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
An absolutely lovely and eye-candy French musical by Jacques Demy. Music by Michel Legrand and starring the very young Catherine Deneuve. My god she’s so classically beautiful and full of graceful, innocent, youthful charm. Her perfect doll-like golden curls, pink overcoat, rosy cardigan, peach one piece dresses clothes, golden clutch, pastel [...]
Posted in Film, tagged Adolescent, Coming of Age, French, Nouvelle Vague on October 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
François Truffaut’s Nouvelle Vague classics. I Love it~
Story: 14 year old boy Antoine Doinel is neglected and unloved at home and undermined at school. He skipped school with his best friend to have fun and engaged in petty crimes. When Antoine was caught stealing his father’s typewriter, he was sent to delinquent correction center…
The boys [...]
Posted in Film, tagged 60s, French, Nouvelle Vague, Ye-ye on May 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Cute new poster illustrated by Keiko Kimura.
Riotto pictures is rereleasing Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 French New Wave classic Masculine Feminine at theater (watch the awesome trailer on the website) and we watch it at NuArt last weekend (showing from Feb 11 – 17 only). This rerelease has new print and new subtitle but sadly the sound [...]
Posted in Film, tagged 60s, Devil, Edgar Allen Poe, Fellini, French, Gothic, Horror, Italian, Nightmare on May 5, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Tre Passi Nel Delirio (1968)
Terrance Stamp (looking circa 1985 but it’s really the 60s).
Also known as ‘Histoires Extraordinaire‘ or ‘Spirits of the Dead‘ in US. This Italian+French production consisted of 3 seperate stories by 3 different directors and casts. All stories were adapted from Edgar Allen Poe. Starring bunch of good looking and [...]
Posted in Novel, tagged Adolescent, Coming of Age, French, Girly, Juvenile on March 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Bonjour Tristesse (1955)
by Françoise Sagan
I better write down my thoughts before my memory starts to fade. I admit I read this solely out of my slight Francophile tendency and cute cover. ^_- Bonjour Tristesse means ‘Hello Sorrow.’ Author Françoise Sagan, one of famous French literary prodigies , wrote it when she was only 17 years [...]
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