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This Summer We’re Channelling: Catherine Deneuve in “Le sauvage”
Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Le sauvage feels like the movie that liberated Catherine Deneuve’s own personality on the screen. Her image in Le sauvage is hardly associated with fashion, and that’s part of the reason why this role is so fresh and different and liberating. Read More
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July Newsletter: On Christmas in July and My Summer of Jackie Brown
Photos: Classiq Journal If I were to choose a film of the last ten years to watch in cinemas for the first time this summer, then it would be Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Two years … Read More
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Breaking the Rules of a Leading Lady: Bette Davis in “The Letter”
There have been other femmes fatales dressed in white who commanded the screen with ferocity, but none of them had the audacity of Bette Davis’ Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, who not only inverts the symbolism of colour, but ironically inverts the roles of bride and mistress. Read More
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Bob Willoughby: The Photographer Who Was as Great as the Stars He Shot
He was not after perfection, not after the star image but after personality, a feeling, he was not after selling an image but about communicating emotion. Bob Willoughby’s photography made the stars human again. Read More
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The Searing Style of Jacques Deray’s “La piscine”
In La piscine, Jacques Deray directs with great style a searing psychosexual thriller, while drawing on the bigger than life personalities and star charisma of his protagonists – Schneider and Delon again together on screen, and Delon reunited with Ronet nine years after Plein soleil. Read More
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