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The Searchers
(1956)
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Francois Truffaut
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John Ford symbolizes an age of Hollywood, the one when good health prevailed over intelligence, craftiness over sincerity. This age has gone; Elia Kazan's and Nicholas Ray's movies make more money than John Ford's, poetry triumphs over entertainment.
Posted Mar 25, 2024
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Savage Wilderness
(1955)
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Francois Truffaut
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More clever than John Ford, Anthony Mann makes westerns less literary and less theatrical but more subtle. The characters seem more real and the relationships between them more true.
Posted Feb 14, 2024
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Moby Dick
(1956)
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Francois Truffaut
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Too often, John Huston offers us, instead of creatures made of flesh and blood, only colorless beings who come onto the screen to deliver one or two aphorisms before going out of focus.
Posted Feb 14, 2024
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Time Bomb
(1959)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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[Time Bomb] achieves the considerable feat of being insipid and grotesque. Should one abuse the film? Hold it in contempt? Commiserate with its maker? Truth to tell, I hardly know where to start in saying what is wrong.
Posted Jun 07, 2022
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Gangster Boss
(1960)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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The deadliest film of the year.
Posted Jun 07, 2022
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Un drôle de dimanche
(1958)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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[The film] is of no interest whatsoever. The script is lamentable, so are the actors. When the roast is bad, you cover up with the sauce, but you can’t save much of a Serge de Boissac script with Bourvil, nor Jean Marsan dialogue with Cathia Caro.
Posted Jun 07, 2022
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Pardners
(1956)
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Francois Truffaut
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Ferociously misogynous... The trick is thus to pretend the gagman are making fun of Jerry Lewis, but, by means of his eccentricities, women and children first are held up to ridicule.
Posted May 26, 2022
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Lifeboat
(1944)
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Francois Truffaut
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Lifeboat is like roast beef without gravy, and whoever does not get enthusiastic about the movie will be bored to death.
Posted May 26, 2022
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The Caine Mutiny
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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The Caine Mutiny can be watched without regrets.
Posted May 10, 2022
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Pete Kelly's Blues
(1955)
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Francois Truffaut
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Jack Webb is a filmmaker who is more skillful than gifted, more sincere than brilliant, more likeable than prestigious. Which is to say that his film is nice to see.
Posted May 10, 2022
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Rhapsody
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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The dullness of Rhapsody leads one to think that Charles Vidor only gave his signature to the pleasant movie Gilda, with cameraman Rudy Mate probably being the real auteur.
Posted May 10, 2022
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Rebecca
(1940)
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Francois Truffaut
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Rebecca has to be seen. Above all, it has to be seen a second time.
Posted May 09, 2022
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Queen Bee
(1955)
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Francois Truffaut
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The acting is not absolutely bad, but weak, very weak, including Joan Crawford’s... Not only is the mise- en-scene clumsy but also, because of its solemn awkwardness, it curbs the timid impulses of the script [and] dulls the rare clever details.
Posted May 09, 2022
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The Long Wait
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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Abysmal, of course, but, let’s admit it, not boring for a second.
Posted May 06, 2022
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The Price of Fear
(1956)
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Francois Truffaut
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The Price of Fear isn’t worth the price you have to pay for your seat, and if it makes you laugh, it’s without meaning to.
Posted May 06, 2022
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
(1948)
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Francois Truffaut
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I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes is one of those films you go see while expecting the worst; it’s the strength of American cinema to hold out a couple of nice surprises of this sort fairly regularly.
Posted May 06, 2022
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King Richard and the Crusaders
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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A bad American film goes over better than a bad French film. King Richard and the Crusaders confirms this. A childish scenario, simplistic dialogues. Who cares, since the rhythm does not falter, since the color is gay and the scenario correct?
Posted May 06, 2022
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Hondo
(1953)
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Francois Truffaut
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This is one of the best westerns of the moment.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Hell and High Water
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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Fuller’s direction is merely adequate; color has been used in an amusing way, but without taste. Richard Widmark is prodigiously bored; Victor Francen, with his feverish chin, parodies himself.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Animal Crackers
(1930)
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Francois Truffaut
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One laughs with this movie as much as one did twenty years ago. The extraordinary sequences of the bridge party and Harpo’s arrival are as irresistible as they used to be.
Posted May 06, 2022
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And God Created Woman
(1956)
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Francois Truffaut
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A film that most certainly is not a masterpiece but that rises clearly -- from a moral point of view as well as from an intellectual or aesthetic point of view -- above the average.
Posted May 06, 2022
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A Man Alone
(1955)
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Francois Truffaut
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Alas! Never was [Ray Milland] less genuine, more unbearably a sinister show-off than in this film, the script of which is a bunch of clichés.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Forever Female
(1953)
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Francois Truffaut
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There is nothing worse than a failed American comedy, which is the case here.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Executive Suite
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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Extremely skillful construction of the film thoroughly informs us about the characters in a minimum of scenes, without cutting up the action in sketches.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Doctor in the House
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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All lovers of English humor have to see this movie, which has lots of spirit.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Decameron Nights
(1953)
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Francois Truffaut
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These Decameron Nights are in pretty Technicolor, and they are entertaining for those spectators who come to watch this movie without having terribly high expectations of their Boccaccio being scrupulously illustrated.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Naked Alibi
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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Let us admit that Naked Alibi perfectly corresponds to the need for a drug that any lover of American films irresistibly experiences.
Posted May 06, 2022
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The Naked Jungle
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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This plague ruins the hero of the film, but it also causes love to blossom between a very charming couple.
Posted May 06, 2022
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The High and the Mighty
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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It is perhaps inappropriate to come down too hard on this movie, which has, despite everything, the advantage of being rather well acted, and which is definitely well directed.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Cause for Alarm
(1951)
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Francois Truffaut
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The solidity of the scenario is sacrificed to effect. But all those effects hit home, perfectly timed, and isn’t that what counts?
Posted May 06, 2022
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Jet Pilot
(1957)
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Francois Truffaut
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To be sure, the film's intention is stupid propaganda, but Sternberg constantly turns it aside so that tears come to our eyes in the face of such beauty.
Posted May 06, 2022
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The Glenn Miller Story
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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The Technicolor is of irreproachable quality and the acting -- bringing together James Stewart and June Allyson -- is excellent.
Posted May 06, 2022
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Plymouth Adventure
(1952)
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Francois Truffaut
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With Clarence Brown, the viewer has to make the first move. The attention that one is willing to bring to it from the beginning is always well rewarded.
Posted Apr 04, 2022
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Garden of Evil
(1954)
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Francois Truffaut
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After River of No Return, Garden of Evil is the best CinemaScope film released this year.
Posted Apr 04, 2022
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Autumn Leaves
(1956)
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Francois Truffaut
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What we ought to admire here is essentially the precision of the direction of the actors... Joan Crawford, raw and at fever pitch as never before, stroking Cliff Robertson, a frail and mischievous youngster -- this alone is worth the price of the ticket.
Posted Apr 04, 2022
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Giant
(1956)
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Francois Truffaut
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Three hours and twenty minutes of deadly boredom tinted with disgust!
Posted Apr 04, 2022
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The Trouble With Harry
(1955)
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Francois Truffaut
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The color is artfully wonderful: fall shades disclose a poetry that offers a mischievous contrast to the gruesome text and action.
Posted Apr 04, 2022
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The Ambassador's Daughter
(1956)
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Francois Truffaut
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We are a bit tired of these pretty-pretty stories, whose ending we guess within ten minutes.
Posted Apr 04, 2022
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The Quatermass Xperiment
(1955)
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Francois Truffaut
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This one is very, very bad, far from the small pleasure we get, for example, from the innocent science fiction films signed by the American Jack Arnold.
Posted Apr 04, 2022
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The Quiet American
(1958)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Mankiewicz probably got so much enjoyment from the writing that there was little enough left for filming it. Though a matter for regret, The Quiet American is still the most interesting film about at the moment.
Posted Sep 16, 2021
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Head Against the Wall
(1959)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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[Franju] seeks the madness behind reality because it is for him the only way to rediscover the true face of reality behind this madness.
Posted Sep 16, 2021
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Moi, un Noir
(1958)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Moi, un Noir is, in effect, both the most daring of films and the humblest.
Posted Sep 02, 2021
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Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse...
(1958)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse is a marvellous cocktail of reportage and fiction.
Posted Sep 02, 2021
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Woman in a Dressing Gown
(1957)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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The British cinema today is an enigma as much as a legend. How have the descendants of Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hardy and George Meredith reached such a degree of incompetence in matters of art?
Posted Sep 01, 2021
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Monika
(1952)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Summer With Monika is the most original film of the most original of directors.
Posted Sep 01, 2021
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