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Aug 4, 2014 · Criterion's "The Essential Jacques Demy". Peter Sobczynski August 04, 2014. Tweet. Jacques Demy Cover. For many years, when people would think about the French New Wave film movement that revolutionized the world of cinema in the late 1950s, their thoughts would drift to the most famous names—Godard, Truffaut, Rivette, Chabrol, Resnais and ...
May 22, 2003 · Prologue. Jacques Demy’s films inhabit worlds in themselves—personal and imaginary worlds, self-contained and organic. Demy’s legacy may lack consistent quality, but not consistent personal vision: while his contemporaries abandoned poetry for politics, Demy remained faithful to the romanticism of his boyhood projects.
Jacques Demy was born on 5 June 1931 in Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and A Room in Town (1982).
Jacques Demy (1931 – 1990) dedicated his little-seen Parking to Jean Cocteau, "who loved the words 'Once Upon a Time.’" Of the innumerable filmmakers influenced by Cocteau, his closest follower/disciple may have been Demy who, like Cocteau, sought to transform everyday reality into imaginative magic.
"A whimsical purveyor of modern fairytales, Jacques Demy was one of the rare French directors to make musicals. Demy was brought up in Nantes (see his widow Agnès Varda's film, Jacquot de Nantes, 1991), where his first film, Lola (1961), was set.
Young Girls Of Rochefort (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Andy Amoreux Jacques Demy directs, his screenplay and lyrics and music by Michel Legrand, a tune performed partly by Solange (Francoise Dorleac), collecting her young brother, but mostly by dazzled American Andy (Gene Kelly), his vocal dubbed in French, in The Young Girls Of Rochefort, 1967.
Jul 30, 2014 · “French director Jacques Demy didn’t just make movies—he created an entire cinematic world.” So say the good folks at Criterion over at the page for the recently released box set of ...
