NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Lumiere (1976)
Making her theatrical debut in 1947, Jeanne Moreau went from actress and singer to director and screenwriter with this film, one of three she’d direct (along with L’Adolescente and Lillian Gish). It’s a semi-autobiographical tale about the lives four actresses, their loves and their friendship. Nearing forty, Sarah (Moreau) invites her best friend Laura (Lucia Bosè, Arcana, Something Creeping In […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Small Change (1975)
François Truffaut started collecting tales from and about children since he made The 400 Blows and used them in this film, including the story of his first kiss. The main kid is the motherless Patrick Desmouceaux (Geory Desmouceaux) and his friend Julien Leclou (Philippe Goldmann), who is dealing with abuse at home. Yet most of the […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Darktown Strutters (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on July 23, 2020. George Armitage wrote Gas-s-s-s, Private Duty Nurses, Night Call Nurses and Vigilante Force before scoring mainstream success with Miami Blues and Grosse Point Blank. He told Film Comment, “I wrote Darktown Strutters in three days, and the script form is all one sentence, the entire script is one sentence.” While […]
Tomorrow’s Hope (2021)
Tomorrow’s Hope is about The Beethoven Project, a school in the middle of the South Side of Chicago and one that tried to — as the title says — give hope to students who otherwise had none. It eventually became a project called Educare and this film is about three students from the first class: […]
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