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The 400 Blows (1959) and Jules et Jim (1962) established François Truffaut as an outstanding and original director. The Soft Skin (La peau douce) (1964) was not in the same league. Although it displays many of his story-telling skills, not least a gift for suspense, the film feels dated, the characters are not quite as interesting as in his earlier hits, and the plot – a middle-aged married man has an affair with an air hostess, and his worn marriage falls apart - is a little formulaic.

Plus: a new bronze watch from Panerai, snails in Asian cuisine and more from T’s cultural compendium.

OVIDtv specializes in documentaries and arthouse such as these 5 French films of the '50s and '60s from directors Marc Allégret and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze.

20 October 2020 PopMatters has been avidly following Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray series called Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, yet we were hardly prepared for Volume 8. In his commentary track, curator and historian Bret Wood calls the film a “sprawling, dishonest, spectacular, offensive, inhumane hodge-podge of a motion picture”, and he’s the one producing the disc. Resurfacing like a sour dream from America’s cinematic subconscious is a long-suppressed phony documentary,  Ingagi (1930), an overwhelmingly profitable and controversial release banned for fals...

film profile] - which was unveiled at Belfort’s EntreVues Film Festival and presented (online) in competition  this week at the 33rd Angers' Premiers Plans Film Festival - plunges us into an atmosphere of suspense amidst a mysterious catastrophe ("a series of disappearances" whose repercussions strongly resonate with the ongoing global pandemic) which drives two Parisians to take to the road and leave for Italy. Deftly opting for a minimalist approach which places the emphasis on a tangible imaginary world and a very physical day-to-day lifestyle (in which nature, food and wine play an im...