#armand thirard

[sesiondemadrugada]

Three Days to Live (Gilles Grangier, 1957).

[astolfocinema]

The Wages of Fear (1953) ---------------------------- dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot cin. Armand Thirard cs. France, Italy

[genevieveetguy]

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (L'assassin habite au 21), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1942)

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LES DIABOLIQUES (1955)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cinematography: Armand Thirard

[vietgiorgio]

"I won't have any regrets."

Les diaboliques (1955)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Cinematography: Armand Thirard

[tomato48]

CARS IN MOVIES

↳La Vérité (1960)

Réalisation : Henri-Georges Clouzot

Directeur de la photographie : Armand Thirard

[thewarmestplacetohide]

Dread by the Decade: La Main du diable

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★★★★

Plot: A painter trades his soul for a talisman that grants him love, fame, and fortune.

Review: What could have been a generic tale of greed is made enthralling by its strong performances, haunting visuals, and pervasive sense of dread.

English Title: Carnival of Sinners Source Material: La Main du diable by Gérard de Nerval Year: 1943 Genre: Occult Country: France Language: French Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes

Director: Maurice Tourneur Writer: Jean-Paul Le Chanois Cinematographer: Armand Thirard Editor: Christian Gaudin Composer: Roger Dumas Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Palau, Noël Roquevert

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Story: 3.5/5 - While it's a familiar parable, the pacing and bleak delivery significantly enhance it.

Performances: 4/5 - Everyone is memorable, but Fresnay is particularly arresting as the fraying Roland, and Roquevert is delightful as a cheery devil.

Cinematography: 4.5/5 - Gorgeous, with eerie lighting and unsettling framing.

Editing: 4.5/5 - Adds well to the film's dream-like quality.

Music: 3/5 - Sometimes off tonally.

Effects & Props: 4/5 - Wonderful usage of practical effects and animation. Roland's paintings could have been more unsettling, though.

Sets: 4/5

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 4/5 - The strange Carnival costumes are standouts.

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Domestic abuse (brief)

[byneddiedingo]

Bernard Blier and Arletty in Hõtel du Nord (Marcel Carné, 1938) Cast: Arletty, Louis Jouvet, Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jane Marken, André Brunot. René Bergeron, Paulette Dubost, François Périer, Andrex, Henri Bosc, Marcel André, Bernard Blier, Jacques Louvigny, Armand Lurville, Génia Vaury. Screenplay: Henri Jeanson, Jean Aurenche, based on a novel by Eugène Dabit. Cinematography: Louis Née, Armand Thirard. Production design: Alexandre Trauner. Film editing: Marthe Gottié, René Le Hénaff. Music: Maurice Jaubert.  Arletty's performance as the raucous streetwalker Raymonde in Hôtel du Nord is quite unlike her most famous role, the fascinating, enigmatic Garance in Marcel Carné's  Children of Paradise (1945). Raymonde shares a room in the hotel with Edmond (Louis Jouvet), a photographer who is hiding out from his old cronies in the Parisian underworld. The film begins with a traveling shot along the canal that flanks the hotel, where we first see a young pair of lovers, Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and Renée (Annabella), walking arm in arm. Inside the hotel, the residents are celebrating the first communion of the daughter of Maltaverne (René Bergeron), a policeman who lives at the hotel. (It's a diverse household.) Pierre and Renée enter and request a room for the night, but instead of making love, they have decided on a suicide pact: He will shoot her, then kill himself. He holds up the first part of the bargain, but then chickens out. Edmond, who has been in his darkroom, hears the shot and breaks down the door, finding Renée apparently dead and Pierre cowering indecisively. Taking the gun from Pierre, Edmond urges him to flee. (The gun becomes a Chekhov's gun when Edmond first tosses it away and then recovers it and stashes it in a drawer.) Renée recovers from the gunshot, and Pierre, torn with guilt, turns himself in to the police as an attempted murderer and is sent to prison. After she recuperates, Renée returns to the hotel to collect her things, and is offered a job there by Madame Lecouvreur (Jane Marken), the wife of the proprietor (André Brunot). And so the story of the suicidal lovers begins to intertwine with that of Edmond and Raymonde. It's all neatly done, with a great deal of atmosphere (a word that Raymonde will give a particular spin to), much of it created by Alexandre Trauner's set, a re-creation in the studios at Billancourt of the actual hotel and the Canal St. Martin.  The film's melodrama is alleviated by the ensemble work and the performances of Jouvet, who can switch from menacing to vulnerable in an instant, and Arletty, who makes the tough, worldly wise Raymonde often very funny. The film concludes with Carné's skillful staging of an elaborate Bastille Day sequence that anticipates the crowd scenes in Children of Paradise.

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LES DIABOLIQUES (1955, DIABOLIQUE) – Episode 143 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“It’s been insane since the beginning. . . . Bathtubs that fill up, and swimming pools that empty. That’s insane. And I was insane to listen to you.” That’s not even the half-of-it. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Whitney Collazo, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr – as they experience Boileau-Narcejac’s twisted tale as presented by Henri-Georges Clouzot in Les Diaboliques (1955).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 143 – Les Diaboliques (1955)

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The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot (as H.G. Clouzot)

Writing Credits:

From the novel by: Boileau-Narcejac (Pierre Boileau as Boileau & Thomas Narcejac as Narcejac; She Who Was No More (1952, Celle qui n’était plus)

Scenario & dialogue by: Henri-Georges Clouzot (as H.G. Clouzot) & Jérôme Géronimi

Collaboration by: René Masson & Frédéric Grendel

Cinematographer: Armand Thirard (director of photography)

Selected Cast:

Simone Signoret as Nicole Horner

Véra Clouzot as Christina Delassalle (as Vera Clouzot)

Paul Meurisse as Michel Delassalle

Charles Vanel as Alfred Fichet, le commissaire

Jean Brochard as Plantiveau, le concierge

Thérèse Dorny as Mme. Herboux

Michel Serrault as M. Raymond, le surveillant

Georges Chamarat as Dr. Loisy

Robert Dalban as Le garagiste

Camille Guérini as Le photographe (as Camille Guerini)

Jacques Hilling as L’employé de la morgue

Jean Lefebvre as Le soldat

Aminda Montserrat as Madame Plantiveau

Jean Témerson as Le garçon d’hôtel (as Jean Temerson)

Jacques Varennes as M. Bridoux, professeur

Georges Poujouly as Soudieu, un élève

Yves-Marie Maurin as Moinet, une jeune Moynet

Noël Roquevert as M. Herboux

Pierre Larquey as M.Drain, professeur

Johnny Hallyday as Un élève (uncredited)

Are you ready for a French murder thriller/ghost story/character piece from the mid-1950s? We thought so! Move over Hitchcock! Director Henri-Georges Clouzot has the rights to the novel and the skill to write and direct Les Diaboliques (1955). If celebrated genre author Robert Bloch (Psycho) considers this his all-time favorite horror film, then the Classic Era Grue Crew just has to check it out! And they loved it! In fact, this is one of those movies that demands (at least) a second watch.

Shame on you if you listened to this podcast without first watching Les Diaboliques! At any rate, at the time of this writing, the film is available to stream from HBOmax, The Criterion Channel, and Plex. If physical media is your preference, Les Diaboliques (Diabolique) is available as a Blu-ray from Criterion.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Whitney, will be The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), another Ray Harryhausen extravaganza! Who doesn’t love ‘em some stop-motion?

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Check out this episode!

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Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) dir. Roger Vadim

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What came first, horror or thriller? Is something horror from what it inspires? Did the chicken or the egg come first? Your deadicated hosts ask the real, hard, philosophical questions as they watch LES DIABOLIQUES (1955, Clouzot) starring Véra Clouzot and Simone Signoret.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 39:08; Discussion 51:38; Ranking 1:09:41

[sesiondemadrugada]

The Divine Voyage (Julien Duvivier, 1929).

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moderato cantabile (fr/it, brook 60)

[genevieveetguy]

Remorques, Jean Grémillon (1941)

[tylermkw]

Carnival of Sinners (1943)

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Roger Vadim, Et Dieu... Créa La Femme, 1956