Best Films – 1936
Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat
FILM
Follow the Fleet
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor
Fury
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang
Libeled Lady
d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
My Man Godfrey
d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch
Le Roman d’un tricheur / The Story of a Cheat
d, scr: Sacha Guitry
Show Boat
d: James Whale; scr: Oscar Hammerstein II
Theodora Goes Wild
d: Richard Boleslawsky; scr: Sidney Buchman
These Three
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton in Dodsworth
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César
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
Club de femmes
d, scr: Jacques Deval
Desire
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young, Samuel Hoffenstein
Dodsworth
d: William [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Claude Berri
The Bear, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and produced by Claude Berri (top); Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand in the Claude Berri-directed drama Jean de Florette (bottom)
Filmmaker Claude Berri, best known internationally for Jean de Florette (1988) and its sequel, Manon of the Spring (1989), died Jan. 12 after suffering a stroke. Berri was directing his 20th film, Trésor, when he fell ill. He was 74.
Beginning in the early 1950s, Berri worked as an actor, director, writer, and producer. He was never a big name in front of the cameras, but in the other three capacities he became one of the most important and influential figures in French cinema.
Among Berri’s films as a producer are Milos Forman’s Taking Off (1971) [...]
by Andre Soares | January 15, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Claude Berri, Jean de Florette, Le Viel homme et l'enfant, Marcel Pagnol, Michel Simon, The Bear, The Two of Us
