Henri-Georges Clouzot Articles

Cécile Aubry, Henri-Georges Clouzot's leading lady in the 1949 drama Manon and Tyrone Power's romantic interest in the 1950 period adventure The Black Rose, died of lung cancer on July 19 in Dourdan, outside of Paris. She was 81. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard (or Anne José Bénard according to some sources) into a wealthy Parisian family on Aug. 3, 1928, Aubry's film debut took [...]

A PROPHET: Césars for Best Picture, Director, Actor Emmanuelle Devos was the Best Supporting Actress César winner for Xavier Giannoli's In the Beginning, a well-received drama that also played at Cannes. In the film, Devos plays the mayor of a small town in the north of France suffering from high unemployment rates. A teary-eyed Mélanie Thierry was the Best Female Newcomer for her young alcoholic [...]

This evening, UCLA's James Bridges Theater will be screening Henri-Georges Clouzot's (right) modernized version of Manon (1949) at 5 p.m., and, at 7:30 p.m., Marina Zenovich's now much-discussed documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008), about the circus surrounding the legal (and at times apparently illegal) maneuverings throughout Roman Polanski's trial for having sex with a minor in the late 1970s. Admission is free. I'm [...]